Hiding in the audience and carefully watching the match were Team Micrograss's three players: Xu Bin, Liu Xiaobie, and Gao Yingjie.
Even though Liulisong Stadium wasn't Micrograss's venue, City B was Micrograss's territory. Suddenly seeing so many people cheering for another team in their own territory made Liu Xiaobie, a Micrograss player born and raised in City B, feel a bit uncomfortable.
"Happy lost the first kill. He didn't take much of the opponent's health. The following matches are going to be difficult." Xu Bin had been paying attention to the match from beginning to end. After all, he had just transferred to Micrograss a year ago and wasn't a local, so in this aspect, he was still lacking compared to Liu Xiaobie.
"Yeah, who would have thought …" Liu Xiaobie also turned his attention back to the match and sighed with emotion. Speaking of Han Yanrou, was there anyone in the pro scene who had met her before Micrograss? That was even when the tenth server had just opened. Everyone had been using their Level 20 or so accounts and knew this girl.
At that time, Han Yanrou was still a complete newbie. But now? In less than a year and a half … It was because of this experience that the Micrograss players didn't dare underestimate Tang Rou. In reality, if it weren't for the fact that Tang Rou was an anomaly among Glory players, she probably would have been a teammate of Liu Xiaobie's — what Glory player would refuse an invitation from a champion team like Micrograss?
"I wonder who Happy's next opponent will be?" Xu Bin guessed. Happy's players were no strangers to them, not at all. Previously, in the battle for the new boss in the game, the pro players had taken turns fighting against Happy's players, so they had a good understanding of Happy's team. It had to be known that in a year of professional matches, if two teams did not enter the playoffs, they would only have two chances to face each other. As for Happy and the others, they would encounter them once a week during the Boss Battle. And this was under the condition that the players from each team took turns to fight.
"Yi Fan won't appear in the Challenge Tournament, right?" Liu Xiaobie glanced at Gao Yingjie and said. He knew that the relationship between these two teenagers was not ordinary. He also knew that Gao Yingjie had come today mostly because of Qiao Yifan.
"Happy, with the current situation, he might be the one to go up," Xu Bin said. When he came, Qiao Yifan had already transferred and left, so he had no contact with him. However, after Happy's fame rose, this name was mentioned quite a few times in Micrograss, so Xu Bin had a better understanding of what kind of person he was.
"It's not Yifan …" At this moment, Gao Yingjie shook his head because he had already seen that the new player standing up from Happy's bench wasn't Qiao Yifan.
It was Mo Fan. After facing Mysterious Fantasy, this was his second official match after joining Happy.
"What do you think? How do you feel about this kind of atmosphere?" Ye Xiu asked Mo Fan, who was standing up to go on stage.
Mo Fan originally didn't pay attention to anyone. He was just about to walk over to the player booths, but when he heard Ye Xiu's question, he hesitated for a moment and then stopped walking. He didn't turn his head. He just stood there thinking for a while before replying, "It's very noisy." After saying this, he continued walking over to the player booths.
At this moment, Tang Rou had also returned from the player booths. When she brushed past Mo Fan, the two didn't have any deep interactions. Tang Rou said, "Good luck!" Mo Fan only nodded slightly.
When Tang Rou returned to the bench, her face was naturally filled with depression and unwillingness. Chen Guo thought for a while, but still couldn't think of a way to comfort her. This was because this match was truly difficult to bear. In terms of the health that Xiao Shiqin's Life Extinguisher had left, Tang Rou had suffered a crushing defeat. She couldn't even touch the words "even though she lost, it was still a glorious defeat." This really put Chen Guo in a difficult spot.
"How do you feel?" In the end, while she was hesitating, she heard Ye Xiu ask a simple and direct question.
"Depressed," Tang Rou said.
"Haha, that's nothing. For a player of Xiao Shiqin's level, even in the entire Alliance, there isn't a single person who dares to say that they can beat him. There are always winners and losers in a competition," Ye Xiu said.
"I know that," Tang Rou nodded. She wasn't naive enough to believe that there was such a thing as invincible Dugu Qiubai. If you often walked by the river, how could your shoes not get wet? That was the hard truth of competition.
"But there's nothing I can do against him." Tang Rou said. This was what truly depressed her. She hadn't been able to take the initiative in this match. She had been completely led by the nose by her opponent. That feeling of having strength but not being able to use it was terrible.
"If this problem could be solved with a few words, then I would've told you before you went onstage. You're up against one of the best players in Glory. If he had some huge flaw that could be easily exploited, then he wouldn't be where he is today. Work hard to improve yourself. From now on, there won't be any shortcuts, "Ye Xiu said.
Tang Rou looked at the stage. At this moment, the holographic projection was playing a replay of the previous match. However, there weren't any exciting highlights in this match. The one that Tang Rou had created at the beginning of the match could be counted as one, but in the end, the importance of that moment was greatly diminished.
"Glory … is so hard …" Looking at Han Yanrou's powerless figure, Tang Rou sighed.
"That's why it's so interesting, isn't it?" Ye Xiu said.
"Yeah." Tang Rou nodded. Her gaze had already turned to the second round of the match. The loss was quite a blow to her, but it also made her work harder to catch up. She had already begun learning from other people's matches.
As the holographic projection was generated, the second round of the match officially began. The map wouldn't change in the group arena. The spawn points of the characters would change randomly, but generally speaking, they would all be diagonally aligned.
"Deception, huh …" Xiao Shiqin looked at Happy's second player. Because this was only his second time participating, there was pitifully little information on Mo Fan. However, in that one match, Mo Fan's unique traits had been fully displayed.
Xiao Shiqin had done research on that match, but right now, he didn't dare relax in the slightest.
In the last match, he had faced Tang Rou, a player who frequently went on stage, giving him enough information to research. In Xiao Shiqin's eyes, Tang Rou's playstyle didn't have too many tactical aspects. She used simple, direct, and violent methods to destroy the opponent's rhythm. Then, she would reestablish a new rhythm. If she succeeded in this process, then her opponent would be in a passive position. This girl's skill level was already not below that of a pro player.
Xiao Shiqin believed that he had already understood Tang Rou's unique traits. Who would have thought that in a match against Tang Rou, he would still be destroyed by Tang Rou? That unreasonable method of attack and the unyielding attitude displayed were far beyond Xiao Shiqin's expectations. Fortunately, he wasn't some random character. After his rhythm was destroyed by Tang Rou, the one who reestablished a new rhythm wasn't Tang Rou, but him.
With this as an example, Xiao Shiqin couldn't help but reevaluate his own judgment. Was his evaluation of Happy's player still too conservative?
Tang Rou, who had a lot of information and research, was like this. Then, Mo Fan, who had only been observed in one match, was also hiding even greater potential?
"Okay, the match starts now. Xiao Shiqin is still using tactical movement. And his opponent, Team Happy's Mo Fan, has only appeared once in this offline tournament, or rather, in the entire Challenger League. Coach Li, did you watch that match? "Pan Lin opened his mouth as the match started.
"Of course, that match left a deep impression on me. I could see that this player, Mo Fan, has extraordinary patience, and his grasp of when to advance and when to retreat is quite accurate," Li Yibo said.
"Haha, actually, I'm sure many viewers know the name Deception. He's a famous scrap picker in the Heavenly Domain. Coach Li, do you think that his playstyle and habits were developed while scrap picking? "Pan Lin said.
"I think you can think of it that way." Li Yibo said with assurance, "Patience, grasping opportunities, retreating safely, these are all qualities that a scrap picker should have."
"But it's best if we don't talk about this topic too much," Pan Lin said.
"Yes yes, let's watch the match, let's watch the match." Li Yibo didn't continue. After all, scrap picking wasn't a praiseworthy activity. Talking about the art of scrap picking here wasn't a good guide.
The two sides used tactical movement, taking a roundabout route to the center of the map.
As a result, the place where the two characters should have met was now empty. Mo Fan's Deception was curled up on a rooftop, quietly looking around. As for Xiao Shiqin's Life Extinguisher? He had stopped when he was still some distance away. His character didn't reveal himself. Instead, he released an electronic eye, sticking close to the wall as he wandered over.
The electronic eye's field of view wasn't as wide as the character's field of view. Xiao Shiqin carefully observed his surroundings, but not long after, a string of static appeared on the screen. Then, his view returned to normal, and the electronic eye's field of view disappeared.
"As expected of a scrap picker with keen observation!!" Pan Lin exclaimed.
"Yeah, even with such a small electronic eye, he was still able to see through it. What astonishing eyesight," Li Yibo said.
"And at such a distance, such a small target. That shuriken was quite accurate!" Pan Lin said.
"This looks like a game of cat and mouse. It looks like we'll have to wait a while to see who's the mouse and who's the cat!" Li Yibo sighed. (To be continued. If you like this work, you're welcome to come to qidian.com to vote. Your support is my greatest motivation.)
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