At the end of Round 37, Luo Ji had truly become the star of the show.
"How was it? Did you feel good, kid?" After the press conference ended, Luo Ji's hair was ravaged by Wei Chen.
"Pretty good, pretty good." Luo Ji's face was brimming with excitement. Best player? A few rounds ago, he was still worried that he wouldn't drag down the team. But now, he had actually become the best player in the competition, laying the foundation for the team's final victory … Luo Ji was really too excited. He didn't care about the embarrassing situation when he was besieged by the reporters. What he cared about was that he could really play a role in the team.
"Continue to work hard, the future is bright!" Wei Chen said.
"Yes, Boss Wei!" Luo Ji replied happily. Then, he was surrounded by the young Qiao Yifan, An Wenyi, and the others to congratulate him. Baozi used his identity as the boss to harshly scold Luo Ji not to be arrogant.
It's so good to be young …
Wei Chen looked at Happy and these youthful young people and sighed with emotion.
Luo Ji's skill level was honestly nothing in Wei Chen's eyes. There were many talented people in this circle. But he had the thing that Wei Chen envied the most: youth.
If he could be ten years younger, even if he had to throw away all his skills and experience, starting from scratch, he could do it!
Skills could be trained, experience could be nurtured, only youth. Once lost, it would never come back.
Luo Ji still had a future. He would play a role in Happy's matches again and again. But what about himself?
Wei Chen took out a cigarette, lit it, and took a deep breath.
He, perhaps, only had the next few matches left.
There was one match in the regular season, and three matches in the playoffs to the finals. If he played three matches in each round, there would be nine matches. A total of ten matches.
Ten matches …
In his career, even if he played every match, it would only be ten matches. Next season? Wei Chen didn't dare to think about it anymore. If he really persisted, he might become a burden to the team.
Why did you retire in the first place?
Wei Chen suddenly felt a little regretful.
Now that he was in his thirties, he was still persevering. Why couldn't he continue persevering back then? Even if he randomly found a battle team, there would always be a spot for him. Six years … Why did he waste these six years? Wei Chen sighed in the laughter of the young people.
They were happy that they were able to rush into the playoffs in their rookie season, but Wei Chen was feeling melancholy that he would play less and less as his career progressed.
"Look at these young people. How nice." Ye Xiu suddenly appeared and patted Wei Chen on the shoulder.
"What the f * ck!" Wei Chen was startled. He didn't hold the cigarette firmly and flipped it over, almost stabbing his eyes. He was startled a second time.
"There are still ten matches left," Ye Xiu said.
"What?" Wei Chen was startled. He still had ten matches to play. For a pro player, this was a very cruel thing. No matter how heartless Ye Xiu was, he wouldn't stab him in the back like this, right? What did this guy mean? Did he mean to include himself in the last ten rounds as well? This guy, he also wants to retire?
"Don't regret it!" Wei Chen said.
"Haha." Ye Xiu only laughed.
After Round 37, all sorts of discussions began to appear. The five teams fighting for the top eight continued to be the hot topic of discussion. Hundred Blossoms, who had lost three points and then turned the tables on Tyranny, Thunderclap, who had won seven points against Samsara, and 301, who had completely defeated Seaside, all received praise from all sides. Happy and Wind Howl's final score was 6 to 4. It was relatively close, but it was hard to say which side performed worse. In the individual competition, Wind Howl's performance of catching up by four points after falling behind by one point was quite impressive. As for the team competition, Su Mucheng and Luo Ji were of course the focus of praise, while Liu Hao became the only player with a terrible performance in Round 37. He became the sole target of criticism from all sides.
In addition, Tang Hao had expressed his dissatisfaction with his performance in the post-match press conference. Everyone had even more reason to call it a disaster.
Some of the less cultured media directly took the words out of context. Tang Hao was clearly just stating that Liu Hao's performance in this match was too subpar, like a disaster. But they used Wind Howl's disaster as the topic, writing Liu Hao as if he were a tumor on Wind Howl. Liu Hao's performance in Wind Howl this season was clearly very good. He was deeply trusted by the team and liked by the players. Otherwise, how could he have been made vice-captain and an All-Star?
But in this round, even the most upright media couldn't find anything good about Liu Hao.
At a glance, the sky was filled with negative comments. In Liu Hao's eyes, he felt as if everything he had worked so hard to build this season was collapsing because of his terrible performance in this match.
Next round, I have to redeem myself. Tang Hao silently gritted his teeth.
June 5th, the Glory Alliance's tenth season finally came to an end. For half of the teams, this was the end of a season. But ten teams would embark on a new journey after this. Some would fight for the highest honor, and some would fight to redeem themselves.
There were three matches this round that attracted the most attention. They were Happy's home game against 301 Degrees, Samsara's home game against Hundred Blossoms, and Micrograss' home game against Wind Howl.
These three matches would determine which three teams would enter the top eight and begin their journey to the playoffs. 301 Degrees, Hundred Blossoms, and Wind Howl couldn't be the slightest bit negligent in this round. Every point would determine their final fate. And Happy, because these teams would definitely rise, couldn't be the slightest bit careless.
"Let me go!" Team Happy, who was preparing for the match, had someone who was actively asking to play.
"Rest, rest!" The others all said.
"Leave it to us. No problem," everyone said.
"Don't! I haven't played in a team competition for a month. Please give me a chance to practice. "Ye Xiu struggled bitterly for a chance to play.
In truth, if it were up to Ye Xiu, he would have been willing to play in Round 35 and Round 37. But Happy's team was very active in pushing him onto the bench.
"You're so experienced. Do you still need to practice?" Tang Rou said.
"Yeah, yeah. If it's Boss, there's no need," Baozi said.
"Rest, rest!" Everyone continued to say.
"I still need this. Hurry up and let me play!" Ye Xiu shouted.
Chen Guo was at a loss. These guys were so noisy that she couldn't figure out if Ye Xiu wanted to practice. Was it necessary, or was it just because he was lonely?
"Do you really need it?" Chen Guo asked Ye Xiu.
Ye Xiu was about to cry. "How could I not need it? I haven't played in a month."
Chen Guo looked towards Su Mucheng and Fang Rui, waiting for an answer from their professional experience.
"Let's listen to his arrangements!" Su Mucheng laughed.
Ye Xiu began to plan for the next round. The first thing he confirmed was his starting lineup for the team competition. The room was instantly filled with boos.
"Abusing your position for personal gain."
Ye Xiu heard someone say this. He began to wonder if these guys really wanted him to rest, or if they were just trying to push him aside to make room for him.
As the deployment continued, everyone finally stopped joking around and began to seriously follow Ye Xiu's instructions.
"Three points is our guarantee of entering the playoffs, but we can't set our goal so low. We have to do our best to win. Don't worry about 301's survival," Ye Xiu said.
"Understood!" Everyone answered.
"Let's practice!" Ye Xiu waved his hand. Training for the next round of competition began nervously.
The R&D department was also making the final push for the playoffs. Everyone wanted to change their equipment as much as possible before the playoffs began. In the playoffs, a single mistake could lead to a complete loss. Suddenly changing to unfamiliar equipment in the playoffs was not a wise thing to do. The deviation caused by the change of equipment could lead to miscalculations or misjudgments in the game. In a sense, the playoffs were a competition of who made fewer mistakes.
"Thirty-six pieces of pseudo-Silver equipment. The Myriad Manifestations Umbrella has also been completed. Do you want to change it now?" Seeing Ye Xiu come over, the R&D department people asked excitedly. They were also looking forward to equipping their characters and shocking the entire Alliance. Although the stats of the Silver equipment wouldn't be displayed, the level wouldn't be hidden. When Team Happy had a full set of Level 80 equipment, how much of a shock would that bring to the Glory circle? Just thinking about it made them excited.
"Let's wait until after this round to switch!" Ye Xiu said. "Can we add more?"
"That's about all we have right now," the R&D department said. "Too many pieces of equipment can't achieve this kind of superfluous and complex structure."
The R&D department called the structure used to upgrade the pseudo-Silver equipment to Level 80 superfluous. If it was just to make the equipment, there would be no need for so many materials. But in order to upgrade the equipment to Level 80, they had to forcefully add more materials to the equipment. These materials couldn't change the equipment's original stats. Many pieces of equipment couldn't withstand this kind of addition and modification. These were failures that couldn't be upgraded to Level 80.
Happy's R&D department's research at this stage was mainly to find which pieces of equipment could be upgraded and which couldn't. As a result, they used up a lot of materials. Fortunately, because they lowered the stat requirements, the Silver equipment only had Orange stats, so the requirements for rare materials were extremely low. The amount of materials for dungeons was far too high. Practically all of them could be found on the in-game trading platform. What they were worried about were the drops from the highest level dungeons. Happy's Wu Chen had organized a team and bought them, so they were able to meet the R&D department's needs.
On one hand, they were developing pseudo-Silver equipment. On the other hand, they weren't lagging behind on proper Silver equipment. After all, the pseudo-Silver-grade equipment was only temporary. The current batch of equipment had all reached Level 80, but when the national level was updated to Level 80, it was unknown whether this batch of equipment could still be upgraded to Level 85 through the superfluous method of adding structures. As a result, proper Silver equipment was the only way to truly sustain development. Happy spent effort on pseudo-Silver equipment mainly because the materials needed for pseudo-Silver equipment didn't conflict with the most important rare materials for proper Silver equipment. Both sides didn't interfere with each other, so they could grab hold of both.
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