“He’s just an old ox that worked itself to death; we don’t need to envy him,” Xia Zhihong said.

Indeed, it is meaningless for the entire team to rely on Kong Lei to earn points. Even if the team fights to the end and wins the championship because of Kong Lei, there is no honor to speak of.

Ye Ling was taken off the stage by the doctor. After receiving treatment for a while, she was not sent to the hospital but recovered to almost normal, and the next battle could continue.

"Next, the Dragon Moon City team will have a significant advantage because their main force is in better condition than Kong Ming and has not been seriously injured or sent to the hospital. Meanwhile, the Lingnan City team will be the most disadvantaged group."

“You can’t say that,” Xia Zhihong said, coming to Chen Feng’s side. “After all, the two most difficult opponents are over. It’s impossible to encounter Ye Ling and Zhou Ting again in Lingnan City. As for whoever comes next, even if Kong Lei only has a third of his strength left, he can still easily defeat him, right?”

"Kong Lei will face me in the third match. Do you think Kong Lei will also beat me badly?"

Chen Feng glanced at Xia Zhihong.

"That's not what I meant," Xia Zhihong quickly admitted, patting his mouth as he did so. "Look at my foul mouth! How was I supposed to know that Captain Chen would be going up on stage? To be honest, I have high hopes for you. Of course, apart from our Tiannan City team and Ye Ling and Zhou Ting's two teams, Kong Lei can probably beat the others with ease."

After Kong Lei finished dealing with Ye Ling, he went down to rest for two more rounds. These two rounds were against Tiannan City Team and Silverstone City Team, and another high school team from another city.

The Silverstone City team no longer had Zhou Ting as its core member, and its strongest combat force was gone. Therefore, Chen Feng personally took to the field and defeated the team members sent by the opposing team.

The high school team from another city was not as strong as the one from Tianchang, so they were easily defeated by Chen Feng.

Tiannan City team thus earned a total of five points, temporarily ranking third, actually squeezing out Kong Lei's Lingnan City team.

This surprised everyone. Before the competition, many people did not include the Tiannan City team in their predictions. Although Chen Feng was a level 17 ability user, the Tiannan City team was only a level 2 city, and the level of the other team members was likely to vary. Just like the problem exposed by the Lingnan City team this time, apart from Kong Lei, there was no one who could fight. Relying solely on Kong Lei, a level 20 ability user, would not be enough to last until the end.

Compared to other major cities, Chen Feng's eleven-member Tiannan City team had no advantage whatsoever.

But who would have thought that such a team would rank third on the leaderboard? They can be considered a dark horse that emerged from this regional league.

Chen Feng won both of his matches and returned to the preparation room to cheers and praise from everyone.

And just then, Hua Qingyue suddenly received a message from the stadium's executive team.

After browsing the messages on his phone, he immediately frowned.

"Guan Wen, there's a problem."

"What's wrong?" Hearing his words, everyone turned to look at him.

"It seems you're being watched by the stadium's security team; they say you're illegally spying."

"How could I illegally gather intelligence?" Guan Wen was puzzled by this question. He walked up to her, took her phone, and looked at the information on it.

But after scanning the information, he frowned.

However, he quickly realized: "Could it be that my strength is too high, and Ye Ling has mistaken me for a non-participant?"

"What do you mean by this?" Everyone was puzzled when they saw Guan Wen's knowing look.

Guan Wen was about to explain to them when the door to the preparation room was suddenly kicked open, and a team of executioners in Alliance uniforms filed in.

Who is Guan Wen?

"I am Guan Wen." Upon hearing this, Guan Wen immediately stood up.

Upon seeing him, one of the officers approached him and said, "The league suspects you of illegally spying on regional league players. Come back with me."

Guan Wen reached out his hands without resisting, allowing the other party to handcuff him and then take him away from the preparation room.

The others in the preparation room exchanged bewildered glances, wondering what had happened. Their school's top prodigy had been inexplicably taken away by the duty team—what did this mean?

"What exactly does 'illegally gathering intelligence' mean?" Chen Feng asked Hua Qingyue, who was standing to the side. Although he was the strongest person in the school, he had always been engrossed in the research of various battles and did not even know much about the competition rules. Therefore, he did not understand what the person who had just carried out the execution was talking about as illegally gathering intelligence.

“Unlawful intelligence gathering is a very common rule in high school leagues,” Hua Qingyue explained. “It means that non-participants are not allowed to disturb the activities of the participants. Even if they want to gather information about the participants before the competition, only the participants are allowed to do so. If non-participants do so, they are breaking the rules and will be severely punished.”

"So that's how it is. So this is a rule that doesn't allow non-participants to interfere with district league activities? But Guan Wen is a participant, how could he have been taken away?"

“I don’t know,” Hua Qingyue shook her head, but then she paused, remembering what Guan Wen had been about to say but hadn’t finished before he left, “He said that he might be too strong and was mistaken for a non-participant. Could it be that his strength has far surpassed that of this year’s participants?”

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