Song Xiao finally stopped his guerrilla warfare and prepared to fight head-on. However, Ye Xiu did not cooperate. Instead, he resorted to guerrilla warfare, causing the match to continue on its boring and repetitive path.
"Shouldn't Ye Xiu want to end this quickly? Why is he stalling for time instead?" Pan Lin said.
"He's stalling for time and taking the initiative, so he's more relaxed mentally. If he were to fight head-on with Song Xiao, he would have to compete with his reaction time and mechanics. For Ye Xiu, who has been fighting for more than ten minutes, it would be difficult for him to maintain the intensity and precision of an unspecialized blitz. It would also consume more energy. Blue Rain's goal of using the group arena to wear down Ye Xiu is very obvious. Ye Xiu obviously won't let them succeed... "Li Yibo said.
"If he keeps holding back, it'll be more difficult to beat Song Xiao..." Pan Lin said.
"It seems so..." Li Yibo had also noticed Ye Xiu's sneak attacks. He was like Song Xiao from before, not wanting to go too deep. He would make a slight contact and immediately retreat if things did not go well. He did not use mechanics to forcefully turn the situation around. As a result, the damage dealt by both sides was very low. For example, Song Xiao had only taken 10% of their health after five minutes of fighting. Although Ye Xiu now had the initiative, it was not much better than the hide-and-seek battle between the two of them before.
"If this continues, it'll also wear him down!" Pan Lin said. Even if it was a less burdensome style of fighting, if it continued for too long, it would obviously accumulate fatigue.
"Yes... Song Xiao has obviously noticed this as well," Li Yibo said.
Song Xiao was initially surprised by Ye Xiu's sudden retreat, but when he noticed Ye Xiu's fighting style, he calmed down. He did not seem to want to turn the situation around. He calmly took a defensive stance and carefully dealt with Ye Xiu's every attack. When Ye Xiu retreated, he let Ye Xiu retreat. He was not in a hurry to chase after him. However, he did not overindulge either. He still kept Ye Xiu under constant pressure. The intensity of a match needed to be maintained. If not, Ye Xiu would be indifferent even if he found a place to sleep. How could he talk about exhaustion?
"Pan Lin is using defense as an attack!" Pan Lin said.
His steady and careful defense made Ye Xiu's multiple sneak attacks unable to gain any benefits. As a result, he could only repeat this process. the more he repeated, the more he would wear him down.
"But Ye Xiu still has the initiative. I think he should have some sort of plan, right?" Li Yibo said.
Time ticked by. This situation lasted for nearly ten minutes. The second match of the group arena had been going on for a total of ten minutes. Including the first match between Ye Xiu and Yu Wenzhou, Ye Xiu had been in the group arena for nearly twenty minutes...
"Ye Xiu … lifted a rock and smashed his own foot!" Pan Lin sighed. In his opinion, Ye Xiu's choice was a failure. Did he not expect Song Xiao to be so tenacious? But Song Xiao had a reputation as a key player! In the playoffs, he would never drop the ball. He wanted to wait for him to make a major mistake, but in the end, he had waited for ten minutes. He had wasted so much time without achieving anything. His repeated attacks had only shaved off 20% of Receding Tides' HP, but under the pressure of Song Xiao's tenacious defense, Lord Grim had also lost 15% of his HP.
Song Xiao was very satisfied with this result. He felt that not only had he achieved his tactical goal, but if he continued to wear Ye Xiu down, he would also smoothly win this match.
Seventeen minutes...
Song Xiao glanced at the time of the match. This 1v1 match had actually been going on for so long. And based on the current pace, it didn't seem like it would be a problem to go on for twenty minutes. Twenty minutes! Song Xiao felt that it was inconceivable. Before today, he would never have imagined that a 1v1 match could go on for twenty minutes.
For such a long time, no matter how intense it was, just maintaining the normal intensity of the match should be very tiring, right? Even he himself felt tired just from defending. What about Ye Xiu? Was he still planning on wearing Ye Xiu down like this? He was probably riding a tiger and finding it hard to get off, right? He definitely didn't think that he would be able to last ten minutes under this kind of fighting style without showing any openings.
Mister Crucial wasn't something that could be casually said. He had never failed any of the important missions that the squadron had entrusted to him.
It didn't matter if it was twenty minutes, twenty-five minutes, or thirty minutes! As long as he could still fight, he would wear him down as much as he wanted!
Song Xiao didn't slack off in the slightest. He focused even more. But in this match, he suddenly felt a bit absent-minded.
That's not right... Why did he suddenly need to increase his focus? His focus had always been very focused! There was no reason for him to increase his focus. Could it be that just now, his focus had been somewhat lax?
"Hey, how long can you last?" At this moment, a message from Ye Xiu suddenly popped up in the chat.
"As long as it takes!" Song Xiao immediately replied.
"Is that so? That's a pity. I can't keep playing like this with you, "Ye Xiu said.
What? Song Xiao was startled. Was this guy going to give up? Was he going to directly GG?
"The last time, I'm coming!"
At the same time that the message was sent, Lord Grim once again rushed out. Song Xiao's reaction wasn't slow. Receding Tides immediately turned to face him.
Was he going to give it his all? Song Xiao also felt that the possibility of directly GG wasn't high. Seeing Ye Xiu's actions, did he finally realize that he couldn't keep playing like this, so he wanted to quickly end this match?
What a pity! Only now did he make such a decision. But even so, he wouldn't let him get away with it so easily!
Song Xiao already had a plan in mind. When he was preparing to fight Ye Xiu head-on, he didn't want to end the match quickly. He would fight as slowly as possible. That was his ultimate goal in this match. Whether it was using guerrilla tactics to stall or fighting head-on, he would do his best to make the match drag on. Now, Ye Xiu wanted to end the match, but Song Xiao wouldn't end it so easily. He wanted to continue tenaciously defending, wasting as much time as he could.
Come on!
Song Xiao braced himself. Suddenly, there was a flash of light in his field of view.
So fast?
Song Xiao was shocked. This sword strike seemed so fast to him that he didn't even think he was fully prepared for it.
Roll!
Song Xiao subconsciously controlled Receding Tides to roll backwards. But immediately after, Receding Tides' curled up body was suddenly lifted into the air.
How could this be?
Song Xiao opened his mouth wide.
The attack came faster than he expected. He originally wanted to take advantage of the situation to counterattack after rolling, but in the end, he was thrown into the air before he could even finish rolling.
"Ye Xiu suddenly attacked! He broke through Song Xiao's defense with just two attacks! What's going on? "Pan Lin was dumbfounded. He couldn't believe what was happening in front of him.
Eleven minutes. A whole eleven minutes.
In those eleven minutes, Ye Xiu had launched countless attacks like this. But every time, Song Xiao firmly defended against them. Then, Ye Xiu would choose to retreat. It was repeated so many times that it made people feel like he was helpless.
But this time … how did he suddenly break through Song Xiao's defense?
"Look at this." Li Yibo suddenly said. Then, a picture-in-picture appeared on the broadcast screen. However, there was no replay in the small screen. Instead, there was a curve. A curve that went from high to low. It was low for a long time, then suddenly went high.
"This is Ye Xiu's APM curve in those eleven minutes," Li Yibo said.
"So low!" Pan Lin immediately noticed a long stretch of the curve. It was a low point that lasted for about seven minutes. And before that, the curve went from a very high value to a very smooth drop.
40！
In a professional match, a 40 APM had appeared. Moreover, it had happened in seven minutes. This was simply too unbelievable.
No matter how skilled a player was, a 40 APM was not enough to deal with a professional match. A player with this kind of hand speed should have been knocked out of the match long ago. But he actually showed off a 40 APM in seven minutes?
What was his opponent doing in those seven minutes?
Everyone knew the answer to this question. In those seven minutes, Song Xiao was seriously defending as usual. He was defending against an attack that used a 40 APM.
"How is this possible?" Even though he was looking at the data, Pan Lin could not figure it out. They had been watching the match from an omniscient view. Was Ye Xiu actually slacking off to such an extent? Just by watching the match, he did not realize it!
"Song Xiao was completely fooled," Li Yibo said.
"In the first four minutes, you could say that Ye Xiu injected him with an anesthetic. Using those four minutes, he let the intensity of his attacks decrease little by little. Song Xiao did not realize that after those four minutes, Lord Grim's attacks were much more concise compared to before. However, Song Xiao was completely focused on defending … He thought that he was wearing down Ye Xiu, but he didn't realize at all that Ye Xiu had been slacking off. The one he was truly wearing down was himself … "Li Yibo said.
"It can actually be like that?" Even though Li Yibo had already explained it thoroughly, Pan Lin still felt that it was inconceivable. But thinking about it carefully, it wasn't just Song Xiao who had been fooled. Hadn't they, the audience, also been drugged by those four minutes?
Slacking off …
Since when could this phrase appear in the pro scene? And in a 1v1 match, slacking off for a full seven minutes.
Pan Lin did not know what to say anymore. He watched the following match. Lord Grim's continuous attacks made Receding Tides suffer a crushing defeat. From this attack, Pan Lin felt that Song Xiao's reaction was a bit slow. At first, he thought that Ye Xiu's words had distracted him and that he would be able to adjust quickly. But now he knew that Song Xiao's reaction was slow. First, Ye Xiu's sudden increase in speed had made Song Xiao, who had been paralyzed by slacking off for seven minutes, unable to adapt. Second, Song Xiao had not slacked off. He had seriously defended for eleven minutes, so he was tired …
"However, Ye Xiu might not be able to win," Li Yibo suddenly said.
"What?"
"Mana, ah. Lord Grim doesn't have enough mana." Li Yibo said, "But Ye Xiu has already completed everything. He didn't let Blue Rain exhaust him. He did his best to deal as much damage as possible to Receding Tides. Then, he left the tired Song Xiao to the next player who is Happy … Ye Xiu is really too scary."
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