The online game had its own liveliness, while the pro scene had its own news.
Excellent Era had always received a lot of attention. After all, they were a famous powerhouse in the Alliance. Before this season, they had always been a strong contender for the championship. However, this season, the characters that received attention were different. At the start of the season, Excellent Era's shaky performance made people's jaws drop. Midway through, they changed their captain and ace player. It seemed like they had improved a lot. However, their vice-captain, Liu Hao, had made a huge mistake. Now, the entire team was in a mess. These two performances were so terrible that they could go down in history.
News reports, newspaper headlines, all of them used the same headline that had been used for the first half of the season: What happened to Excellent Era???
However, this time, there was an extra word. The headlines were all: What happened to Excellent Era???
Excellent Era's PR seemed so small and powerless in front of this terrible performance that would go down in history. The fans were already tired of this kind of verbal promise. They needed to show it with action. Before that, they would only continue to vent their dissatisfaction.
In Excellent Era's team meeting, the manager also realized that something was wrong.
After he roared on the stage, all he saw were lifeless faces. Sun Xiang, Liu Hao, Shen Jian …... these main players were all absent-minded.
Their expressions were also filled with worry. However, this worry didn't seem to be for the team, but for their own future. Right now, Excellent Era was like a sinking ship. The main force that was supposed to support this ship was now thinking about what would happen after the ship sank.
The manager could not help but feel alarmed at this scene. Although the first half of the season was bad, it was still under control. But now? It was completely out of control. He didn't know why it had become like this, and he didn't know how to change it …...
Helpless, the manager dismissed the meeting. This meeting didn't have any results that he had hoped for. He only felt that the situation was serious. He had no choice but to pick up the phone: "Boss … …"
Although most of the players in the game paid attention to the pro scene, news from the pro scene didn't directly affect the lives of the players in the game. Dungeon Instance Dungeons continued, Quest Quests continued, and PK continued. However, to the fans of Excellent Era, the team's disgusting performance made them unable to raise their heads. This also became a source of ridicule for their opponents.
Chen Yehui was in charge of an MMO guild, so the team's poor performance had nothing to do with him. However, as a core member of the club, he clearly felt that the atmosphere in the club was quite solemn.
What happened after Liu Hao and the others came last time? Chen Yehui still didn't dare to ask. He bumped into Liu Hao at the club, but Liu Hao looked absent-minded and didn't see him. He just drifted past him.
He Ming, Shen Jian, Zhang Jiaxing …
Everyone who had the opportunity to see it had a heavy expression on their faces. As for team captain Sun Xiang, Chen Yehui secretly asked around. It was said that he always shut himself in his room. Apart from when he had to go out to eat or train, he didn't see anyone.
The situation looked quite serious, and Chen Yehui didn't dare to do anything rashly. Before anyone came looking for him, he decided to return to the game and quietly do his job. There was no chance of anything going wrong.
In the game, everything else was still going according to the rules. As for Lord Grim and Deception, there was still no progress.
The top guilds knew that even though they had a bunch of bounties on their heads, six of the seven bounties were just for show. Lord Grim was their main target, so they would only pay attention to Lord Grim when they received news about him. As for everything else, they would just put on an act.
But what about Lord Grim? In the past few days, they had received quite a bit of news, but they hadn't even seen his shadow yet. They weren't even sure if those who sent the news had actually seen Lord Grim or if they were just making fun of them. The top guilds all requested that those who sent the news confirm the target and keep an eye on the target before their people arrived. But then they thought about it again. Who were they supposed to keep an eye on? Ye Qiu! The Three Great Guilds had sent out several hundred players. They had locked him in a small town in the Wilderness and yet he had disappeared without a trace. How could a single player keep an eye on him? They could only pray that Ye Qiu didn't care and intentionally sent people to keep an eye on him.
But in this situation, would Ye Qiu be so careless? It didn't seem like he would, because in the past few days, Lord Grim was online every day, but they couldn't see him. The top guilds began to receive less and less information. After the initial wave of activity, many people stopped trying their luck in low-leveled areas.
Could it be that they had wasted their efforts again? The Club guilds were at a loss. They had even used such a powerful tool like RMB. How could they still not be able to take down Lord Grim?
In the blink of an eye, a week passed. A new round of the Pro League began. Apart from worrying about who would make it into the top eight, there were also more Glory fans worried about who would be eliminated.
In the Pro League, one or two bad performances weren't enough to determine the overall situation. As a result, the two teams that were usually eliminated were the ones that weren't strong enough. As a result, they were at a disadvantage throughout the entire season. But in the first half of the Pro League, Excellent Era had been stuck in a quagmire with consecutive bad performances. After the ace players had improved a few times, this kind of disastrous performance made people think that Excellent Era had returned! The strong contender for the eliminated spot had returned!
If Excellent Era really was eliminated, it would definitely be a major event.
Glory's competitive history was still relatively new. It was only the eighth season. It wasn't enough time for a powerhouse to fall from prosperity to decline. But now, it seemed that Excellent Era might be able to achieve this. The team that had created a dynasty in the Alliance didn't want to miss out on such a chance. Did they want to leave a deep mark in Glory's history?
There was no lack of such mocking comments in the media. After all, even though Excellent Era wasn't as invincible as they had been during their three consecutive championships, they had always been a powerhouse. Their sudden elimination didn't seem like a gradual process at all. It was as if they wanted to give everyone a pleasant surprise.
Excellent Era's mortal enemies rejoiced in their misfortune. Excellent Era's supporters were worried. Under the attention of countless people, a new round of matches began. This round, Excellent Era was facing Team Samsara in their away game ….
Club Samsara had hosted the All Star Weekend this season, but unfortunately, the home team hadn't been able to steal any of the limelight. But after the All Star Weekend, Team Samsara's condition was unusually good. Excellent Era had just been beaten to a pulp, and now they were facing a team in the limelight. It was unfortunate, but it was also an opportunity.
If they wanted to beat Samsara, they would need to put in a lot of effort. But if they could snipe Samsara, who was in the limelight, then it would be a good opportunity to prove themselves.
Could Excellent Era do it? The people looking forward to this match weren't just Excellent Era's supporters. This match was broadcasted by Happy Internet Cafe. Broadcasting the most watched match was Chen Guo's principle. She didn't purposely avoid Team Excellent Era. This match was the most watched match of this season. No one had any objections.
As a result, Happy Internet Cafe was once again filled to the brim, but the atmosphere was terrifyingly heavy. Elsewhere, there might be many neutral fans watching this match, but here, practically everyone was a supporter of Excellent Era. Everyone's palms were sweating. When the match was about to begin, there wasn't even any noise, applause, or loud cheers for the players they supported. Everyone was silent, anxiously watching the match begin.
In the individual competition, Su Mucheng was the first to win, lifting everyone's spirits.
In the second round, vice-captain Liu Hao won. Happy Internet Cafe's atmosphere suddenly became much more lively.
Chen Guo even let out a sigh of relief. Even though she had once ferociously hoped that Excellent Era would never recover, after seeing Ye Xiu's sad and lonely expression, she suddenly began to hope that Excellent Era would do better.
Without a doubt, Chen Guo was a standard brainless fan. She was completely centered around her idol. Su Mucheng was still in Excellent Era! If Excellent Era was too pathetic, wouldn't Su Mucheng be embarrassed as well? Thinking of this, Chen Guo hoped that Excellent Era would do better.
She stole a glance at Ye Xiu, who was standing by the door, smoking while watching the match. That guy was expressionless. The two wins didn't seem to make him feel anything.
And then, Excellent Era lost the third match. The Internet Cafe was filled with sighs of regret, but the atmosphere was clearly much better than at the start. At least there was some noise and some popularity.
However, the group arena competition that followed was like a heavy downpour, drenching everyone like a drowned rat. In the group arena, Samsara only sent one player, Zhou Zekai.
1v3!
In the group arena, Zhou Zekai actually managed a 1v3. His beautiful Sharpshooter Taijutsu and marksmanship were very eye-catching in the eyes of the Excellent Era fans. No one was in the mood to appreciate the magnificence. Everyone was in the mood to eat Zhou Zekai alive.
In the end, someone in the crowd couldn't help but shout out, "So handsome!"
The only person worthy of this praise was Zhou Zekai. Everyone angrily looked for the source of the voice and saw a love-struck girl. It was a good thing that it was a girl. Otherwise, the 110 and 120 would have to line up to patronize Happy Internet Cafe.
The Internet Cafe's atmosphere returned to the beginning. The team competition began with everyone on edge. This team competition lasted for 30 minutes. It wasn't long, but it wasn't short either. In the end, all of the Excellent Era fans closed their eyes in pain.
Lost. They lost again.
2: 8. That was the final score. Compared to the previous round, they only gained one more point. Excellent Era's performance wasn't as disgusting as the previous round, but it was still as chaotic and dispirited as before. This was even more obvious in the team competition.
"F * ck!" Happy Internet Cafe was drowning in curses.
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