There were no openings.
This was the most obvious trait of Zhang Xinjie, the player with the lowest mistake rate in the Glory Alliance. And now, this trait was being reflected in Team Tyranny's strategy.
According to Tyranny's previous aggressive playstyle, they didn't avoid mistakes. Instead, they relied on their powerful attacks to crush them. But now, they had changed.
After half a minute of stalemate, they didn't immediately crush the trap. They also stopped Happy from making any new arrangements. Then, they moved to a more comfortable position. Just like that, the murderous aura that was faintly flowing through the air was silently neutralized by them.
Perhaps only Ye Xiu, who understood Tyranny so well, would be able to sense this change clearly.
And after moving to this side of the road, Tyranny finally began probing attacks.
Han Wenqing's Desert Dust and Lin Jingyan's Dark Thunder were in front. Zhang Jiale and Qin Muyun's two Gunners were two units behind. In the middle was Zhang Xinjie's Immovable Rock.
The team maintained this formation, approaching Lord Grim step by step. With each step, it seemed like they were organizing the latest information and situation.
Retreat?
With Tyranny's unhurried manner, even if he retreated, he wouldn't be able to provoke them.
Advance?
What could he do if he advanced? He couldn't just charge up and 1v5!
But Ye Xiu's Lord Grim really did advance.
Before Tyranny's hardcore fans could react to Ye Xiu's arrogant actions, two figures flew out from Tyranny's formation.
Dazzling Hundred Blossoms.
Negative Nine Degrees.
Unexpectedly, two Gunners were charging forward. Han Wenqing's Desert Dust steadily continued to advance with Lin Jingyan's Dark Thunder.
Gunshots rang out. Gunfire erupted. Two beams of fire immediately intersected towards Lord Grim's position.
Retreat?
No, wait, the two Gunners were blocking Lord Grim's back. The two Gunners were blocking his path of retreat. Retreating now was exactly what he wanted.
Not retreating?
At the same time, Desert Dust and Dark Thunder suddenly sped up and rushed towards Lord Grim.
In the blink of an eye, they had actually completed an attack from all sides!
"Beautiful!" Pan Lin exclaimed.
It was a beautiful attack, but Ye Xiu's response was extremely simple. He raised the Myriad Manifestations Umbrella in the direction of Negative Nine Degrees' attack.
Peng peng peng peng...
The sound of the bullets hitting the Myriad Manifestations Umbrella's shield was quite strange. His attack coefficient was blocked. Lord Grim was about to calmly walk towards this opening, when a pure white flame silently bloomed at this moment.
Sacred Fire!
Taking advantage of the gap created by the Myriad Manifestations Umbrella's shield, he set up an ambush with Sacred Fire. Accurate, timely, and in an instant, the white flames burned Lord Grim's entire body!
Three seconds of silence, three seconds of opportunity to attack!
In the blink of an eye, Lord Grim was enveloped by the light of the Hundred Blossoms. Desert Dust and Dark Thunder leapt forward.
The crowd gasped in surprise.
Tyranny had been neither fast nor slow at the start, but now, they had suddenly sped up to such a degree. It was truly breathtaking.
Tyranny's tactics had become even more varied. Not only did this not weaken their attacks, but it also increased their explosive power. This was all because of this change in tempo. Apart from this, one couldn't ignore the fact that there weren't any openings in his tactics.
Suddenly increasing speed to such a tempo, yet every step seemed to have been taken after deep thought, making it impossible for anyone to find any openings.
Sharpshooters' attacks were pure point attacks, which were easily blocked by shields. Sharpshooter attacks? There's already a Sacred Fire waiting for you!
With such a watertight arrangement, even if the battle-hardened Ye Xiu could see through it, what could he do? There was no way to counter it, right?
"Ye Xiu was careless!" Even Li Yibo, who had been extremely cautious in the playoffs, dared to criticize Ye Xiu.
Of course, that was what everyone thought as well.
One person running over to provoke the entire team was indeed very brave. But in the end, he was directly killed by the other side. That would be a bit embarrassing.
Ye Xiu was in an extremely dangerous and awkward situation, but … Happy's other four players didn't move at all.
The broadcast and the big screen in the stadium had split the four players' perspectives into four sections. Through their perspectives, they could see Lord Grim's situation. But they still followed their original plan and didn't come up to help.
They couldn't be so rigid, right? People couldn't help but wonder.
Pre-match preparation was important, but 70% of a match depended on a player's decision making. No team would not make any changes on the spot in this kind of situation.
Unless … they were confident and didn't need to make any changes on the spot.
The broadcast immediately turned and locked onto Lord Grim again.
Lord Grim had already been completely swallowed up by the Hundred Blossoms style. Han Wenqing and Lin Jingyan's characters were only a few steps away. Lord Grim couldn't use any skills for three seconds. In a blur, it seemed like a big circle was spinning around.
How long could three seconds last?
After the big circle spun around a few times, that blurry figure suddenly sped up. In an instant, Lord Grim was standing clearly in front of everyone.
Lord Grim had charged out of the Hundred Blossoms style's encirclement, and he had been hit by Sacred Fire and was silenced for three seconds.
This time, the entire stadium couldn't even make a sound of surprise.
The big screen quickly replayed the scene and zoomed in. It was extremely close, as if the camera was right next to Lord Grim and was watching him.
All sorts of stray bullets and grenades swarmed towards Lord Grim. Lord Grim didn't have any skills, so he could only wave the umbrella in his hands and do his best to block the attacks. As he blocked, he moved. Just like that, after three seconds, the movement speed effect of the skills immediately broke out of the Hundred Blossoms style's encirclement.
The audience continued to be confused. They watched the replay in slow motion, but they still didn't understand. After blocking a few attacks, he just broke out?
The only one who immediately understood was Zhang Jiale, the creator of the Hundred Blossoms style.
Only he clearly knew that the few circles Lord Grim's Myriad Manifestations Umbrella spun around weren't just to block damage. What he was blocking was the Hundred Blossoms style's encirclement skills.
It was precisely because he blocked these skills that the Hundred Blossoms style's light was still there, but it didn't have much of a hindrance. As soon as the Sacred Fire's effects wore off, he immediately used a skill to rush out. In the end, Han Wenqing and Lin Jingyan could only pounce on empty air.
In other words, even though Tyranny's strategy was watertight, Ye Xiu had completely seen through Zhang Jiale's Hundred Blossoms style.
His understanding of Zhang Jiale wasn't any less than his understanding of Han Wenqing.
Hundred Blossoms style? Not counting this season, just counting the years before, it had already been six years.
As Zhang Jiale's mentality changed, the Hundred Blossoms style also changed in different ways. But no matter how many changes there were, the Spitfire skills were the same. When you clearly understood the use of each skill, you could often make accurate predictions about the Hundred Blossoms style.
The theory was that simple, but there weren't many people who could truly execute this theory.
Ye Xiu did it precisely because he understood the theory. As a result, after seeing Tyranny's division of labor, he immediately understood Zhang Jiale's goal.
As for how to use the skills, the Hundred Blossoms style was so complex that Ye Xiu couldn't be 100% sure. But at least he was mentally prepared. He knew where to focus his defenses. And then there was another point. His character Lord Grim had such a large Myriad Manifestations Umbrella shield.
Lord Grim rushed out of the encirclement and quickly retreated. Tyranny's two long-ranged players continued to attack, but the pace of Tyranny's two Fist Fighters immediately slowed down.
They didn't take this opportunity to chase after him, because they didn't forget that Happy's other four players had a high chance of lying in ambush in front of them.
As a result, Lord Grim finally escaped from their attack range. Looking at Tyranny's side, their overall tempo slowed down. They once again maintained a very stable formation, advancing bit by bit.
Patience. They really were immeasurably patient.
For the sake of this championship, they had been looking forward to it for so many years. What was a few more minutes and a few seconds of patience on the field?
Team Tyranny's steady advance made Ye Xiu's character jump up and down seem very childish. Extremely childish. Even though he had brilliantly escaped from the encirclement that Li Yibo had deemed "impossible to escape", Tyranny still had the advantage.
Li Yibo had just been slapped in the face. He wasn't in a good mood and didn't like to talk. Happy's audience members were Happy. Seeing this scene, they were naturally anxious. They just didn't understand. Why weren't Happy's other four players moving? What was Happy planning?
Because Happy hadn't given any tactical instructions, it was clear that this was all part of Happy's pre-match plan. It looked like a tactic to lure the enemy in, but Tyranny definitely wouldn't fall for it. Why was Happy still persisting?
"What's he planning?" Even Huang Shaotian couldn't figure it out. He sent a message to Yu Wenzhou.
"Maybe he wants to get a better understanding of Tyranny's current tactical structure?" Yu Wenzhou's tone wasn't too convinced.
"Does he have to do that?"
"If he didn't do that, in that predicament just now, other than Ye Xiu, who else could have escaped?" Yu Wenzhou replied.
Huang Shaotian held his phone for a long time, but didn't type anything.
Everyone would always subconsciously think about this kind of question.
Using the Hundred Blossoms style to escape like Ye Xiu?
It was very difficult.
Huang Shaotian had a certain understanding of the Hundred Blossoms style, but he probably wasn't as deep as Ye Xiu's.
Then there was his Troubling Rain. He didn't have a shield, so he couldn't block attacks as well as Lord Grim's.
Using only dodging and parrying attacks to break open an opening in the Hundred Blossoms style in three seconds without any skills?
He said that it was very difficult because there was no absolute in this world!
If it was him, he might really have died …
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