Mo Fan was trying to break through his limits, but the reason why limits were called limits was because they couldn't be broken through in one go. Improving technique and awareness wasn't like farming for equipment in the game. Suddenly, one day, your luck exploded, and your strength increased. These things could only be slowly accumulated through training and actual battle, day after day. Breaking through limits was also like this. It wasn't as simple as suddenly saying one day that one would break through on a whim.
Mo Fan was trying to break through his limits, trying to break through at all costs. He was truly performing in a state that he had never performed in his normal training. However, breaking through limits wasn't like farming for equipment. Once you did, you would have that state forever. It was one thing to suddenly make a breakthrough, and another to familiarize oneself with the process. In short, you still had to rely on bit by bit to accumulate.
Being able to defeat Sun Xiang, even with One Leaf Of Autumn at 72% health, was already an incredible breakthrough for Mo Fan. Facing Du Ming, he still wanted to continue. He continued to stubbornly, even crazily, challenging his limits again and again. However, at this moment, his condition was clearly not good. Although he repeatedly gave Du Ming a scare, Du Ming would quickly turn the situation around. Deception's 14% health wasn't enough for him to struggle a few more times. In the end, Deception fell. Du Ming's victory could be said to have been advantageous without any danger. Mo Fan's performance made him feel like he had dropped the ball at a crucial moment.
It seemed like defeating Sun Xiang had taken a lot out of him. However, in this match, he still fought so fiercely …
Although he was a rookie, Du Ming still silently felt a sense of respect for Mo Fan. This type of tenacious player, no matter where, whether he won or lost, was worthy of respect.
Mo Fan came down from the stage. Sure enough, he looked tired. For him, it was mainly mental fatigue. He had repeatedly focused on bursting out like a fully drawn bow, constantly tensing his mind. He had completely ignored the consequences.
"Too reckless," Ye Xiu said, looking at Mo Fan.
Mo Fan silently glanced at Ye Xiu, but didn't say anything. He returned to his seat. Qiao Yifan handed him a bottle of water. Mo Fan was slightly startled, but he accepted it and nodded at Qiao Yifan to express his gratitude.
What was this guy thinking? No one knew. The only one who could communicate with him verbally was Su Mucheng, but even Su Mucheng only said something to him and never knew what he was thinking.
"Talk to him more!" Helpless, this matter could only be handed over to Su Mucheng, letting her guide that guy who didn't like to talk to people.
At this moment, Happy's third player for the group arena stood up.
Tang Rou had been Happy's main defender ever since the one versus three incident. As soon as she stood up, the atmosphere became a little cold. Even at this time of the season, Tang Rou's popularity was still at a freezing point. Even her home team was lukewarm towards her. One could imagine what kind of situation she was in among her fans. What's more, Happy was the only one left. As for Samsara, Du Ming's Blade Master, Moon-Luring Frost, was still at 91% health. Behind him was a fully recovered Zhou Zekai, Glory's number one player, Zhou Zekai.
There was no way to fight.
Everyone thought so. Even if Samsara was declared the winner of the group arena, no one would care.
But Tang Rou didn't care about any of this. She stood up, received her teammates' blessings, and walked towards the stage resolutely. Even if she heard the occasional boos from the sidelines, she didn't care. At home, Happy's fans were already giving her a lot of face for the sake of the team. If this was an away game, whenever Tang Rou appeared, she would be like a public enemy. She had been able to endure that kind of situation. The silence from the home team was as gratifying as applause for her.
This sort of home atmosphere was truly strange and stifling. Samsara's away players felt a little uncomfortable. They looked around, observing the attitude of Happy's fans. They obviously knew why it was like this, but they hadn't expected it to be so serious. Even in their own fan base, which was always the most protective of their own, Tang Rou was unexpectedly treated so coldly. And their support for Team Happy was so fervent. It was truly a strange phenomenon.
Everyone knew all too well what this sort of situation meant for a pro player. But this girl persevered in this sort of situation.
Samsara had studied Tang Rou's matches. After the 1v3 incident, Tang Rou's biggest change was that she was no longer the vanguard of the group arena. She was now the anchor of the group arena. Apart from this, there were no other changes. She was still as imposing and unstoppable as before. Her popularity had been frozen, but her strength was still steadily increasing. Among the rookies who had joined the Alliance this season, in terms of strength, she was undoubtedly the most outstanding. If it weren't for the fact that she was a bit too old for a newcomer, her future would have been limitless. In addition to her outstanding appearance and temperament, countless people felt sorry for her.
Gradually, there were also some voices that hoped that everyone could be more lenient towards a rookie player. However, there would always be some people who wouldn't let it go, especially Esports Time's Ruan Cheng. He was now a professional hater of Tang Rou. When he wrote a comment, he would try his best to slander Tang Rou in a roundabout way. But more importantly, it was Tang Rou's own attitude. In this situation where the wind had already started to change and there were already voices speaking up for her, if the contestant herself could come out and express her sincerity, perhaps this matter would really be resolved.
But no, Tang Rou didn't have any intentions of saying anything. This was also why many fans hated her. Everyone felt that she wouldn't change even though she knew she was in the wrong, stubbornly refusing to admit her mistakes. And then there were those who insisted on linking this to Tang Rou's appearance, creating ugly comments like the beauty was spoiled and the beauty was using her privileges. In the end, that bit of support wasn't enough to pull Tang Rou out of the icy water.
But what made these voices the most depressed was that they couldn't criticize Tang Rou based on her performance on stage. After the 1v3 incident, Happy entered a crazy winning streak. Her worst score was 9 to 1. Even when she lost against 301, the score was 4 to 6. She had still obtained the two points from the group arena. She won all of the group arena matches. Tang Rou's performance during this period of time was impeccable. As a result, they could only nitpick at the bones in an egg, talking about things like "the reasonableness of the use of skill."
They had been thirsting for experience for a really long time …
And now, against Samsara, as the defending general, Tang Rou was facing an incomparably difficult situation. It was so difficult that even these people who had been thirsting for experience for so long believed that if Tang Rou lost here, it wouldn't be much of an experience.
Against almost two opponents, and one of them was even Zhou Zekai. Losing was simply too reasonable.
After Tang Rou entered the player booth, the atmosphere in the stadium changed slightly. There was a buzzing noise. This was people chatting, discussing, gossiping. It was as if no one cared about the following match. Because they didn't like Happy, because they had already determined the result of this match.
The cheers were gone. Even the people who were paying attention to the match had become very, very few. Only Samsara's supporters were still cheering with all their might. They were happy that they were finally able to take back two points in the group arena.
The match began. The applause that would usually be given at such a time became sparse.
"Is this because of … Zhou Zekai?" Chen Guo felt this awkward atmosphere and smiled bitterly.
Tang Rou had indeed become unpopular, but when she was on stage, she still represented Happy. The fans could dislike her, but they couldn't not look forward to Happy's victory. As a result, as the main defender of the group arena, she would sometimes receive some encouragement.
But this time, Happy's supporters seemed to have completely given up on her.
Chen Guo knew that there could only be one reason for this: the fans believed that Happy had no chance of winning.
Why?
Because Samsara still had two players. They had a huge advantage.
And because one of Samsara's two players was Zhou Zekai, Glory's number one player.
Zhou Zekai was so strong that he could not only boost his own team's morale and confidence. He hadn't even gone on stage yet, but he could already influence the attitude of his opponent's fans.
"There's Zhou Zekai. We won't win …"
To be able to force the home fans to have such an attitude, Zhou Zekai's current position in the Alliance was something that Chen Guo had a very deep understanding of.
Chen Guo was a bit angry at these fans, but during the Spring Festival event, the fans' enthusiasm proved that they had extremely high hopes for Happy. Perhaps they couldn't be blamed. It could only be blamed on Zhou Zekai's unreasonable strength. Also … Tang Rou's dislike was very deep. Perhaps if it were any other player from Happy, the fans would still cheer for them.
"Sigh …" Chen Guo sighed. Tang Rou's persistence made her feel even more helpless than Zhou Zekai's strength. This girl didn't have the slightest bit of "Soft" in her appearance. Was this name used to mock her? Chen Guo silently ridiculed Tang Rou's famous father.
The match began with no one paying attention. The players onstage didn't know the audience's reaction. Du Ming was especially looking forward to this match. As soon as the match began, his character Moon Luring Frost used even more moves than in the previous match.
"I really didn't think that we'd meet in an official match," Du Ming said in the chat.
Tang Rou replied with a smiley face.
"Let's go all-out!" Du Ming shouted.
"Of course." Tang Rou replied. Han Yanrou charged forward. Du Ming's Moon Luring Frost chased after her. The two characters gradually entered each other's field of view. They didn't dodge, nor did they use the gap between them. They directly clashed.
Tang Rou was someone who had once embarrassed Du Ming, and she had embarrassed him greatly.
During the All-Star Weekend's player challenge segment, he had actually lost to a player who challenged him onstage, and twice at that. For a long time, he had become the joke of the circle. Unfortunately, his opponent was just a normal player. As a pro player, he couldn't chase after a normal player and say that he was going to get revenge, could he? Du Ming could only admit that he was unlucky and gloomy for a long time.
Until the player who had defeated him seemed like he was going to become a pro player. And now, he was finally standing on the same stage as Du Ming.
Revenge? It had already been two years. Du Ming didn't have any thoughts of revenge. But he didn't forget about it. So one day, when he discovered that Tang Rou had also started to enter the pro scene, he couldn't help but pay more attention to her. And this person really wasn't someone who was content with her lot. Not long after she officially entered the pro scene, her 1v3 had caused a huge commotion in the pro scene. She was practically the main character.
But in the end, not only did she fail the 1v3, she even broke her own promise. For a moment, the main character became the antagonist.
Du Ming was dumbstruck. Disregarding everything else, this was a girl with a lot of personality. Plus, she was very pretty.
He couldn't remember the grudges from the past. Du Ming actually had a good impression of this girl, who he had been paying attention to all this time. Especially after the 1v3, Tang Rou's miserable state in the pro scene, Du Ming felt his heart ache.
He really wanted to support Tang Rou, but … what was his position? After Team Samsara counted the four All Stars, then the Assassin Wu Qi and the Cleric Fang Minghua, only then could it be his turn. When it came to such a sensitive matter, the reporters would ask for the opinions of Samsara's players, but when would it be his turn?
Seeing Zhou Zekai mumbling about this matter for a long time and finally mumbling an inexplicable "very strong", Du Ming really wanted to punch him in the face.
Very strong my ass. What's very strong?
Du Ming had never been so worried about Zhou Zekai's concise and comprehensive answers.
During that time, Du Ming's state could be described as being worried sick. But he quickly realized that his worries were unnecessary. Even though Tang Rou's popularity plummeted, her performance actually became more stable. In the following matches, Happy actually performed better than Samsara.
Du Ming suddenly felt even more admiration for this girl.
Finally, it was Round 20. Samsara Happy met again, and this time, Du Ming and Tang Rou had a chance to meet onstage.
Du Ming was excited, and Samsara's players were also talking among themselves.
Du Ming's attention to Tang Rou wasn't a secret in Samsara. For someone like Jiang Botao, who was an expert at communicating with others, how could he not see that Du Ming was secretly in love with her?
"This guy is excitedly rushing over with his sword. I think he's in pretty good shape! Is he trying to kill her to express his love for his goddess? "Wu Qi said, seeing Du Ming's extraordinary performance.
"He's trying to attract her attention by showing off himself, right?" Sure enough, Jiang Botao was an expert at reading people's minds.
"He's as childish as an elementary school student!" Fang Minghua sighed.
"Oh sh * t!" Someone cried out. Samsara's players all facepalmed and lowered their heads in silence.
Moon Luring Frost, who had rushed over excitedly, was knocked to the ground by a Circle Swing from Han Yanrou.
"Is he already on his knees?" Lu Boyuan covered his eyes and peeked at the battlefield.
"No … …" Zhou Zekai said.
"Careless!" Du Ming yelled in the chat.
"F * ck, how embarrassing … …" Samsara's players expressed.
"He's not going to yell out 'I love you' or something like that, right?"
"If that's the case, then we should sell him while there's still two days left in the transfer window!"
"Sell him to Happy?"
"Then we'd be falling right into his trap!" Everyone laughed.
Onstage, the battle continued … …
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