Chapter 0

The playoffs, the team battle, the healer switched out…

The entire alliance knew that Happy was bold and that they would occasionally take a risky approach, but no one expected them to dare to play so big in the crucial battle of the playoffs.

An all-out offensive lineup, a desperate gamble.

For professional players, these two were like closely related terms. When this kind of lineup was deployed, it meant that they were no longer thinking about a way out. A team without a healer could only advance, only defeat their opponents; there was no other choice.

But in the eyes of the masters, no one felt that Happy had reached the point where they needed to fight with their backs to the river. Su Mucheng’s Dancing Rain’s position was absolutely safe, and with her support, it shouldn’t be difficult for Ye Xiu’s Lord Grim to climb to this absolutely safe position again. Then there was Fang Rui’s Boundless Sea. It was indeed difficult being attacked by three people, but with this guy’s cunning and treachery, if he only wanted to escape, perhaps he could always do it, right?

The professional masters had confidence in Fang Rui, which showed that they had been thoroughly harassed by this guy over the years. But after watching the battle more closely for a while, everyone realized that today’s Fang Rui, if he wanted to escape by relying on his sneakiness, faced an obstacle that he had probably never encountered before. Among the players besieging him today was a person named Lin Jingyan.

The one who understood him best, the one who was most familiar with him, Lin Jingyan, was his opponent today.

Roll, turn, feint, change direction!

Boundless Sea used a set of extremely skilled and wretched maneuvers, and Han Wenqing’s upright Desert Dust was immediately shifted out of position. Song Qiying, the young rookie, also lacked foresight due to inexperience. His Long River Sunset wanted to attack but found himself blocked by Desert Dust.

Did he escape?

A brick was right in front of Boundless Sea.

Lin Jingyan, Dark Thunder.

He wasn’t as conspicuous as the two grapplers in the attack, but whenever Boundless Sea suddenly seized an opportunity to make a move and create an opening, Lin Jingyan would always make his Dark Thunder seal off that opening in a timely and efficient manner.

In less than a moment, this was already the third time.

In less than a moment, Boundless Sea’s health had already dropped by a third.

Because of Lin Jingyan’s presence, Han Wenqing and Song Qiying could let go and just attack, because the task of preventing Fang Rui from escaping had been completely handed over to Lin Jingyan. Otherwise, how could Han Wenqing and Song Qiying’s double-team be broken by Fang Rui three times in a short period of time? It was all because the two of them didn’t care about this at all, because they had completely handed over this part of the work to Lin Jingyan.

In the individual competition, Lin Jingyan was the one who directly and mainly caused Tyranny to fall behind, but now, he still received the unwavering trust of Tyranny’s players.

The fourth time!

In the blink of an eye, he had successfully intercepted Fang Rui for the fourth time.

Fang Rui was already a little anxious. At this time, he didn’t even have the time to say trash talk. Three people were attacking together, and two of them were powerful close-combat grapplers. Where did he have the time to type? At first, he thought that the two idiots were really easy to get rid of, but after being blocked twice by Lin Jingyan’s Dark Thunder, Fang Rui already knew that those two were not being stupid.

If he wanted to escape, the real opponent wasn’t those two, but his old partner!

He had changed his class, and for the past year, he had taken advantage of his opponents’ unfamiliarity with "Qigong Master Fang Rui" to gain many advantages. But the old partner in front of him, even after he changed his class, was still able to keep up with his thinking and rhythm.

If he wanted to get rid of him, he had to make another breakthrough, he had to have a performance that he had never had before.

Fang Rui suddenly wasn’t in a hurry to escape. He suddenly began to defend and dodge in the attacks of the three, and began to play as defensively as possible.

Did he give up trying to escape? Was he waiting for rescue?

The viewers were all thinking this, after all, they knew Happy’s decision at this time. Of course, Fang Rui also knew. An Wenyi switching with Luo Ji, this decision to give up healing couldn’t have been decided privately by the players. This came from Ye Xiu’s instructions, clearly in Happy’s team channel, so Fang Rui also knew that two combat classes were going all out to save him.

Rescue, Tyranny couldn’t have not thought of that. What they couldn’t have thought of was Happy’s decision to give up healing. In their prepared responses, they were probably targeting the combat mage and priest, or the summoner versus priest situations.

Was Happy thinking of targeting Tyranny’s psychological gap?

The masters were thinking this. But Tyranny’s posture at this time didn’t seem to have changed at all. After Fang Rui put on an attitude of not wanting to escape anymore, the attacks of the three grapplers were still distributed in the same way: the two grapplers went all out to attack, and Lin Jingyan defended.

Fang Rui was even more annoyed.

He didn’t give up trying to escape! Because he was very clear that the risk of giving up healing was too great, and at this time Happy would take such a risky move because he was trapped here. If he could escape safely, Su Mucheng would be safe, and it would be easy for Ye Xiu to leave. Then Happy could completely regroup and come back, there was no need to go all out here. Such an important life-and-death battle actually required a suicidal attack so quickly. Fang Rui was of the same mindset as those onlookers, feeling that it was too much. But soon he couldn’t have the “too much” thought anymore, because at this time he was trapped by Tyranny. It was actually him, he had become the breakthrough point that was pierced by Tyranny in this battle, and it was his inability to escape that put Happy in a dilemma. Even if he couldn’t escape from a one-on-three situation, it wouldn’t be something to be laughed at, but Fang Rui still cared that he had become a breakthrough point.

Tang Rou and Luo Ji’s rescue had arrived, but Fang Rui was still trying to change the current situation.

But Tyranny didn’t fall for his tricks at all. Even if he pretended to change his rhythm, letting Tyranny think that his attitude had changed, Tyranny’s attitude didn’t change.

What a bunch of stubborn people!

Fang Rui, who didn’t have time to type, could only complain wildly in his heart, very dissatisfied with Tyranny’s straightforwardness. What he didn’t know was that after he changed his rhythm and changed his attitude, Lin Jingyan immediately sent a message in Tyranny’s channel: “Ignore him.”

His intentions were ultimately completely seen through by Lin Jingyan.

Lin Jingyan, no matter what, didn’t understand the technical characteristics and rhythm of the former Thief Fang Rui as well as he did after his professional transformation. However, Lin Jingyan understood Fang Rui’s psychology. Many times, what he realized wasn’t what Fang Rui would do, but directly realized what Fang Rui wanted to do. What he saw wasn’t Fang Rui’s method, he saw Fang Rui’s intention. Then, with the coordination of his two teammates to restrain and force Fang Rui, his judgment became more accurate.

Fang Rui, who failed to change his attitude, had to make adjustments again.

If soft tactics didn’t work, then he had to use hard tactics!

Fang Rui hardened his heart and threw away his sneakiness, suddenly trying to break through.

At this moment, a message popped up in Happy’s team channel: Lin.

The message came from Ye Xiu, and then, artillery fire flew over.

Su Mucheng’s Dancing Rain suddenly applied firepower suppression to this end. In an instant, cannons rained down!

Well done!

Fang Rui excitedly shouted in his heart. This feeling of being in a long drought and finally getting rain almost made him cry with excitement.

Team competition, wonderful team competition. On this arena, you are never fighting alone. When you need it most, your teammates will definitely support you.

Boom boom boom.

Cannons roared, and in a blaze of fire, Boundless Sea punched, Spiral Qi Ripple! (xuanzhuan qi chong)

The rotating and condensing qi drove Boundless Sea’s body and suddenly drilled forward.

The target was Dark Thunder!

A strong breakthrough. Fang Rui finally chose his old partner. Familiarity was a sharp weapon that both sides could use. Compared to the two grapplers, Fang Rui still felt that this familiar rogue was more likely to succeed. What’s more, Su Mucheng’s firepower was also bombarding this end. This came from Ye Xiu’s instructions, it seemed that that guy had judged it this way!

Dark Thunder backflipped.

While dodging Dancing Rain’s artillery fire, he was also letting go of the Spiral Qi Ripple. His backflip was so straight, he was just desperately maintaining the distance between the two characters, but he resolutely refused to give up any openings.

In the individual competition, Tyranny had already lost a point because of him. Now, he wouldn’t reveal even an inch of opening. This wasn’t just this match, this might be an opening that would determine this year, or even his entire life.

At this moment, Lin Jingyan had completely forgotten his age, completely forgotten what was next. He only knew the blockade in front of him, he had to do it no matter what.

At this moment, Dark Thunder was no longer a character who was gradually faltering under the command of an old general. He shone brightly. It was clearly just an ordinary backflip, but the rhythmic cadence made people feel an unspeakable smoothness.

Jump, jump, jump, a straight jump all the way. The Spiral Qi Ripple’s qi ran out, but it was still a little short of Dark Thunder. This attack, in coordination with Dancing Rain’s artillery fire, didn’t even manage to wrest an opening from Lin Jingyan, not even a step.

Fang Rui was about to attack again, but he didn’t expect Lin Jingyan’s reaction to be much faster at this moment, as if he had been waiting for this moment.

Mountain Block Tiger! (lan shan hu)

Double Crescent Moon! (shuang yue ya)

Scar Pain! (shangba zhi tong)

The skill of Tang Three Strikes, which had been eliminated but was Lin Jingyan’s former symbol, was once again displayed at this time, once again blooming with light.

Boundless Sea was knocked down, Boundless Sea was hit by the intersecting light that resembled two crescent moons, Boundless Sea was marked with scars and entered a bleeding state.

Boundless Sea was completely intercepted.

Fang Rui was stunned. He really didn’t expect Lin Jingyan to be able to do this. He thought he knew Lin Jingyan well enough. He thought that in the Spiral Qi Ripple just now, he would have been able to break through Lin Jingyan’s limit, and would have been able to knock him away, or force him to retreat to the side.

But, no!

Lin Jingyan dodged this Spiral Qi Ripple in the most direct way, and countered him with his ancient and outdated techniques.

Fang Rui wanted to break through head-on, but in the end, he was knocked down from the front by Lin Jingyan.

Fang Rui suddenly realized that the Lin Jingyan he was familiar with was perhaps only a part of him. This signature skill of Lin Jingyan in the past was so unfamiliar to him.