Chapter 11 Interview

Xia Country official livestream viewing platform.

"The eleventh match is about to begin, and our captain hasn't appeared yet," said Liu Chongyuan. "Should we go get him?"

"Don't worry," Li Miaomiao said. "The last match just ended, and the guest commentators will be talking for over ten minutes!"

"Actually, the previous matches were all quite exciting, and several teams are really strong," Yang Qingshuo said. "They might face us in the second or third round later. Is Brother Xu not even watching the matches?"

Wang Yi smiled and said, "The captain is just confident."

"Don't worry, he'll watch the match videos after the first round is over," Li Miaomiao explained.

"The official livestream schedules a match every half hour," Heng Fang said. "The actual combat only takes up to ten minutes! Pre-match interviews, guest predictions... post-match analysis and commentary take up most of the time. Lao Xu saves time by watching the videos after the matches."

"Hmm?" Li Miaomiao spotted a figure in the distance, none other than Xu Jingming.

"Jingming," Li Miaomiao immediately called out.

"Lao Xu, you've finally arrived," Heng Fang laughed.

"You're the captain, yet you left us all here," Liu Chongyuan also said.

"Don't worry, I timed it perfectly," Xu Jingming said with a smile. "Arriving ten minutes early, isn't that fine?"

Whoosh.

Suddenly, a female figure appeared and walked directly to Li Miaomiao.

"Hello, Meow Meow, I'm Xiao Rong, an assistant from the Xia Country official livestream," the woman said with a smile. "We'll be inviting all members of your Pearwood team onto the stage later. Here's an interview outline. The host will ask some of these questions. You can prepare briefly. If you don't want to answer, other teammates can answer."

She handed a stack of documents to the team manager, Li Miaomiao.

Li Miaomiao took it and smiled as she read it. "These questions are deliberately provocative."

"Pre-match interviews need some spice," Assistant Xiao Rong said with a smile. "Later, the official livestream will send invitations to the six of you. If you accept, you'll appear on stage."

Xu Jingming and the other five all nodded.

"I won't disturb you any longer," Assistant Xiao Rong then left.

"Here's an interview outline for each of you," Li Miaomiao began to distribute them, one sheet per person. Xu Jingming also took one and smiled as he read it.

"Ten billion viewers are watching, so we still need to be careful," Liu Chongyuan said, a little nervous.

While looking at the interview outline, Xu Jingming asked, "In the previous ten matches, is there anything in particular we should pay attention to?"

"There are many experts," Wang Yi said. "We're not even sure if some experts are hiding their strength."

Xu Jingming nodded, deciding to watch the videos after the match.

Soon, right on time at 5 o'clock, the Xia Country official livestream sent out invitations.

"Mom, Dad, Grandpa, we're going to the match now," Xu Jingming said goodbye to his family.

"When you're being interviewed on stage, no matter what, you can't let them suppress your momentum," his father, Xu Hong, said.

"In simple terms, talk trash!" Grandpa Xu reminded him.

At the same time, Wang Yi, Heng Fang, Yang Qingshuo, Liu Chongyuan, and Li Miaomiao also briefly said a few words to their friends and family, then the six team members all accepted the livestream invitation at the same time.

...

Xu Jingming and the other five appeared on the commentary stage.

"The six members of the Pearwood team, please sit here," the host, Liu Xin, warmly greeted them. Xu Jingming and the others sat down in order. At this time, the six members of the Thousand Sails team also appeared and sat down in turn.

"Sister Yi!"

"Sister Yi is on stage!"

"Meow Meow, wow, Meow Meow can actually be on stage."

"Meow Meow is awesome. She can be on stage at the National Fire Seed Cup competition, even if she's just a substitute."

Countless viewers watched, including many fans of Wang Yi and Li Miaomiao.

On the commentary stage, a slightly chubby female guest said with a smile, "I'm a fan of Wang Yi and also a fan of Meow Meow. I didn't expect to have the opportunity to interview you today. First of all, I want to ask Meow Meow, how does it feel to be on stage?"

"It's nothing special," Li Miaomiao said with a smile. "I think I'd be happier if you asked me this question during the finals."

"Finals?" The host, Liu Xin, and another male guest exchanged glances.

"What spirit!" Liu Xin said with a smile. "We must remember these words and ask again during the finals."

The female guest looked at Wang Yi again. "Wang Yi, we all know that many teams were inviting you, and you only made your choice on the last day before registration. What made you choose Xu Jingming and the others as your teammates?"

"Because, among all the teams that invited me," Wang Yi said with a smile, "my current teammates are the strongest!"

"The strongest?" The male guest smiled and looked at Xu Jingming. "I want to ask Xu Jingming, the captain of the Pearwood team, do you agree with what Wang Yi said? The teams that invited Wang Yi include several powerful teams, such as the Immortals team led by Zhang Qing and the Golden Roc team led by Tie Lianyun."

The female guest also followed up and asked, "Li Miaomiao said she wants to be on stage during the finals. Captain, what do you think?"

Xu Jingming smiled slightly. "We're just talking big. We're not that strong!"

The other five members of the team all laughed.

"Thousand Sails team, are you confident in defeating the Pearwood team?" The male guest immediately looked at the other team.

"We don't have the confidence to defeat them," Captain Hao Fan said with a smile, his eyes gleaming fiercely. "But if they want to win, they'll have to lose a few teeth!"

The other team members were also full of fighting spirit.

Judging from the numerous intelligence reports, the gap between the two sides was still very obvious. Because of this, the Thousand Sails team was even more determined to fight to the death. Even if the whole team was wiped out, they would have to take down two or three members of the other team.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the eleventh match, Pearwood team versus Thousand Sails team, is about to begin." Host Liu Xin looked at the combat space displayed behind them. "The map for their battle is the Mountain Forest map."

...

Mountain forest after the rain, muddy everywhere.

Xu Jingming's five members and the Thousand Sails team's five members landed at the same time. Some appeared on the ground, some were in trees, and some were simply on a mountain to the side. But all were within a one-kilometer radius.

"First, gather around Wang Yi," Xu Jingming was located on the mountainside, running on the mountain while using the team voice chat.

"According to the rules of the main competition," Heng Fang said in the team voice chat, "at the end of each round, the winning team will have a combat power ranking based on their actual combat performance! Except for Liu Hai's team and Lei Yunfang's team, which are fixed at numbers 1 and 2, the other teams will have a new ranking based on their actual combat performance."

"There will be 16 teams in the second round. At that time, number 1 will fight number 16, and number 2 will fight number 15," Heng Fang said. "Early on, we have to avoid the teams of the two seniors so that we have more opportunities to fight and hone our skills! If our team had one more third-order expert, we would have a chance against the two seniors' teams."

Yang Qingshuo said, "The team's combat power is calculated based on the strength shown by each member in the competition. So even if we want to hide our strength, we can't hide too much... If we hide too much, we might be ranked 15th or 16th."

"Just perform normally. It's best if you can break through your limits in the fight and reach the third order," Xu Jingming said in the team voice chat. "I'll make a move depending on the situation."

"Okay."

The team members were all very serious. These top experts were almost all stuck at a bottleneck, and each of them was eager to break through the bottleneck and step into the third order in terms of combat skills. That way, the evolution method would be quickly improved.

"Charge!" Hao Fan of the Thousand Sails team, with twin blades at his waist, charged fiercely in the front.

"Yes." The four team members followed the captain and charged together. The entire team didn't have a single archer; they just charged head-on.

Xu Jingming, Liu Chongyuan, Heng Fang, and Yang Qingshuo had already protected Wang Yi.

"Hao Fan is, after all, an old-timer who has reached the top eight in the World Martial Arts Competition, and he's very strong. None of the people he invited are mediocre," Xu Jingming said in the team voice chat. "It mainly depends on the three of you to block them."

"Leave it to us," Heng Fang, Yang Qingshuo, and Liu Chongyuan were also full of fighting spirit.

Whoosh!

Accompanied by a sudden arrow whistling through the mountain forest, fast and swift, the two sides officially exchanged blows.

"Swish." The middle-aged man, Hao Fan, flicked his hand and shot out a stream of light, with a bang, actually colliding with the arrow.

"What a powerful hidden weapon technique." Xu Jingming watched and praised in his heart. Some of these old-generation players have relatively ordinary strength, but those old-generation players who still practice diligently after retirement have some demonic combat skills.

"Charge."

Hao Fan continued to charge forward. He was the spearhead of the team, and four teammates followed behind him, heading straight for Wang Yi's location.

The mountain forest map was only one kilometer in radius, after all. Hao Fan and his team had already determined the approximate location of the Pearwood team. Running at a speed of hundreds of meters per second, they could already see Xu Jingming, Heng Fang, and the others.

"Throw!" The middle-aged man, Hao Fan, gave an order.

The four team members behind him threw flying axes at Xu Jingming and the other three. They threw continuously with both hands, throwing more than a dozen flying axes at Xu Jingming and the other three in a short amount of time. Each flying axe blurred through the air, each with a speed exceeding one hundred meters per second, instantly reaching Xu Jingming and the other three.