Chapter 80 Semi-finals (I)

In Yuan Zhuo's plan, they did not get married so early. It was not that he did not want to, but he was afraid that Qi Ji would not agree.

He thought that after a few years, when their relationship was stable and they had both left the e-sports industry and could spend more time with each other, he would propose to him .

Although same-sex marriage is not recognized in the country yet, it doesn't matter. Apart from this piece of paper, they will have everything.

Qi Ji did not quite understand what Yuan Zhuo meant, and he asked uncertainly.

"Do you mean going to Las Vegas to get the marriage certificate?"

"Of course we have to do that too!"

This was one of his wishes, but the marriage he was talking about was not just that.

Yuan Zhuo felt much better when he thought that in the near future, they could become a real couple under the witness of their relatives, friends, and the mountains and rivers of heaven and earth.

Holding Qi Ji's hand, he sat on the bed, and half-knelt down to hold his waist, put his head on his legs, and looked up at him.

"What I mean by marriage is that in addition to getting the marriage certificate, we have all the necessary ceremonies, such as engagement, wedding, and mutual guardianship."

In this way, they can truly be together for the rest of their lives. No matter what happens to his hand in the future, he will love him and take care of him for the rest of his life.

Of course, even if there is none of this, even if it means a desperate struggle, he will be with him for the rest of his life.

...

Qi Ji never thought that Yuan Zhuo would want to hold a wedding with him, at least not when he was less than 20 years old.

But he knew that Yuan Zhuo was not joking, nor was it a whim. He really loved him and really wanted to spend a beautiful and long life with him.

However, he did not have such a beautiful and long life.

Holding Yuan Zhuo's face, Qi Ji lowered his head and kissed him, transparent tears overflowed from the corners of his eyes and dripped onto the soft sheets.

Enjoying this sudden kiss, Yuan Zhuo's anxious and painful mood caused by what happened in the past two days was also soothed a lot.

After the kiss, he looked at Qi Ji with satisfaction and continued to ask the question just now.

"Well, wife, do you agree to this?"

Looking at Yuan Zhuo's expectant and burning eyes, the pain in Qi Ji's heart came like waves, pulling out a faint smile, he deceived him again.

"We can be guardians of each other, but as for the wedding... you're still young, wait a few more years." It

's not that he doesn't want to get married with Yuan Zhuo, but he will leave him eventually, and he doesn't want him to experience such a beautiful and unforgettable scene and then accept the fact that he is leaving.

This is too cruel. When he sees those people who witnessed their wedding in the future, it may trigger those painful memories for him, so he can't agree to hold the wedding.

Yuan Zhuo was disappointed for a moment because he didn't get the answer he wanted most.

But on second thought, Qi Ji had already agreed to be guardians of each other, which can be regarded as another form of marriage, and it also has legal effect, which is not bad to think about!

Thinking of this, Yuan Zhuo became happy and excited again.

"Okay, then let's do it after the competition is over and we return home, wife!"

As for the wedding, they can take their time in the future, he can wait.

Seeing Yuan Zhuo's smile, Qi Ji felt relieved. After nodding lightly, he gave some instructions.

"Then don't let this matter affect your mood and competition status." It

is impossible to say that it will not affect you at all, but since Qi Ji has made such a choice, they must win the championship, otherwise his sin will be in vain.

Thinking of this, Yuan Zhuo's desire to win the championship became stronger. Looking at Qi Ji, his eyes were firm and high-spirited.

"Okay, wife, don't worry, we will definitely win the championship!"

Qi Ji nodded quietly.

Yes, they will and must win the championship.

This way, he could put an end to his life and leave a precious gift for Yuan Zhuo.

...

In the blink of an eye, the day of the semi-finals arrived.

After several days of brutal competition, the top four of S10 have been born, namely MG, KDG, IEG, and RV. So far, there is only one team left in HPL.

This seems to be a little worse than last year, but compared with last year, MG, which is still a dark horse, is not expected to have much hope.

This year, with Qi Ji's MG, after the summer season and the first half of the world championship, the audience of HPL and Qi Ji's global fans are full of hope for MG.

And today will be the day when MG and KDG compete for the finals ticket. Before the game starts, the tense atmosphere has already filled the entire stadium.

The atmosphere in MG's lounge was the same, even though they were facing their old rivals from last year's finals, and they had defeated them last year.

This year, MG's strength has been improved in all dimensions due to the addition of Qi Ji, but everyone was still very nervous.

First of all, it was not only them that had improved their overall strength, but KDG's strength had also improved. So far, their performance was also impeccable, and they almost swept all the way to the semi-finals.

And last year, they were able to beat KDG, in addition to their own good strength and much less psychological pressure than the opponent, mainly because KDG did not take their unknown dark horse team seriously at all. After losing two games in a row, they were able to catch up with them for two games, forcing them to the fifth game of BO5.

Although they won the championship in the end, if KDG had taken it seriously from the beginning last year, it would be hard to say what the final result would be.

In addition, this year they have Qi Ji and won the spring and summer championships. KDG can't make the same mistake as last year. They will definitely do their best to prevent them from entering the finals and wipe out last year's shame.

Cheng Xiaowa, who is the most easily nervous, has begun to feel a dull pain in his stomach. He lies in Zhu Yu's arms a little weakly.

Zhu Yu rubs his stomach and comforts him gently.

"It's okay. With Qi Shen and Melt here, we have a great chance of winning."

Cheng Xiaowa didn't want to be nervous, but he had no choice. This year is different from last year. This year they have reasons and pressure to win the championship, and their opponents are much stronger than last year.

But no one is that worried about Cheng Xiaowa. After all, he can't help but get nervous before every big competition, but as long as the competition starts, he will concentrate on the competition and completely ignore all external interference.

Unless there is a major change that is not favorable to them during the competition, he will habitually get nervous, and no one needs to worry about him at other times.

Of course, even if he is really nervous, no one will blame him. They are players, not machines. People will get nervous and make mistakes. This is normal.

However, although Zhu Yu comforted Cheng Xiaowa with a calm and gentle tone, he was a little uneasy in his heart. Fortunately, while comforting Cheng Xiaowa, he also distracted his attention, so he felt okay overall.

Except for Cheng Xiaowa, Duan Tianya didn't say anything, but he was nervously drinking water. In the end, Yuan Zhuo couldn't help but remind him with a funny tone.

"Brother Tianya, don't drink anymore. If you drink more, the game will be suspended."

Coming back to his senses, Duan Tianya quickly put down the mineral water bottle.

Yes, yes, you can't drink anymore. Suspending during the game is not a good thing. It is very likely to interrupt the continuation of the state.

As for Yuan Zhuo, he was still a little nervous, but as always, he was more excited to face a strong enemy.

Thinking of the trash talk before the game, KDG said that they would not only stop Qi Ji's third championship, but also avenge MG, and Yuan Zhuo's fighting spirit became even more vigorous.

Ha, with him and Qi Ji here, they can forget about it.

Finally, it was Qi Ji. He was really not nervous, not only because he had a big heart.

More importantly, he had been fighting in HOW for ten years, and this was his seventh time to enter the semifinals of the world championship. Although the last semifinal was in S7, these memories and experiences had already penetrated into his bones, and he could handle it with ease.

Maybe he would feel a little nervous only when he entered the finals, after all, the last time he entered the finals was in S6 four years ago.

And, for some reason, this time he had a very strong premonition that he had never had before, that is, they would definitely win the championship.

So Qi Ji was not only not nervous, but also worked with the coach to calm the emotions of others.

However, the players did not have much time to adjust their mentality. Seeing that they were about to go on the court, Coach Wang gathered everyone together. As usual, everyone put their hands together, shouted "Come on" to encourage themselves and their teammates, and then walked out of the lounge one by one, ready to go on the court.

On the way to the stage, Yuan Zhuo gently squeezed Qi Ji's right wrist, and the latter gave him a "reassuring" look, and then they walked side by side to the entrance.

KDG's players have arrived. After seeing Qi Ji coming, Flower, who was always silent and indifferent, actually raised his small single eyelids and looked at Qi Ji deeply.

Realizing that this was not a greeting, Qi Ji did not give any response, and just walked to their positions with Yuan Zhuo.

Yuan Zhuo blocked Qi Ji with his body in a somewhat unhappy manner, and responded to Flower with an arrogant and provocative look.

After meeting Yuan Zhuo's gaze, Flower's eyes flashed with a very obvious disdain and disgust, which immediately aroused Yuan Zhuo's curiosity and fighting spirit. He couldn't help but secretly think in his heart that he must beat him up on the court today, so that no one would use him to touch his wife.

The audience at the scene of this highly anticipated semi-final match was packed, leaving no empty seats, and the ticket prices were even sky-high. Everyone was very excited.

In the case that the opponent is also a highly popular team, Qi Ji's popularity is still terrifying.

Wherever the eyes and the camera go, there are almost fans holding his banners and cheering light signs.

When he appeared under the spotlight and walked onto the stage, the deafening screams drowned out the music and almost broke the speakers.

Soon the exciting players’ appearances ended, and after everyone was seated and the headsets were adjusted, the competition officially began.

As two of the world’s top teams, the two sides started to compete and compete in the BP stage.

In view of the fact that the core of the opponent is the 21-year-old genius soul mage Flower and the soul sniper Ares who joined the team last year, MG first banned the two heroes they are best at in this world competition.

Of course, MG is also very good at these two heroes. It can only be said that the strength of the two teams is very close at present, but the core of MG is Qi Ji and Yuan Zhuo.

Comparing the strength of each position of the two teams, looking at the Soul Mage position, although Flower, who is at her peak, may react slightly faster than Qi Ji, Qi Ji's advantage is that he has unrivaled experience in big competitions and a unique understanding of the game, so overall they are still on par.

Of course, after Flower won the championship and before Qi Ji joined MG, many people believed that Flower was better than Qi Ji and always liked to regard him as Qi Ji's successor. The main reason was that Qi Ji had to take on multiple roles at that time and could not focus on the laning and game in the middle lane, so he always made some helpless mistakes.

But after he joined MG, such voices became much smaller. Of course, the final result of this debate depends on the victory or defeat of today's game.

In the Soul Assassin position, Yuan Zhuo is slightly ahead in terms of personal ability, but KDG's Soul Assassin Ben is the No. 1 Soul Assassin in the Korean division, and he is not bad.

In the bottom lane combination, the opponent's Soul Support Didy's strength and spirituality are a little worse than Cheng Xiaowa. Although Ares seems to be more operational and aggressive than Zhu Yu, MG is definitely in the advantage in terms of coordination and tacit understanding in the entire bottom lane. In

the top lane Soul Tank, Duan Tianya is weaker than the opponent, but fortunately MG's focus is not on the top lane. As long as he stays stable and does not fall behind too much, he can play his role in team battles as before and complete his tasks.

After the BP ended, because both sides were very strong, the Hero Soul Pool was very broad, and the BP restrictions were relatively small, they both got a good lineup.

At the beginning of the game, it was just like the trash talk before the game, full of gunpowder.

At level 2, KDG's soul thorn Ben and soul mage Flower caught Yuan Zhuo running to the other half of the jungle, and caught Qi Ji with excellent cooperation and operation.

Seeing that the first blood was bound to be given away, Qi Ji did not give up. He relied on his own operation and experience to manipulate the hero soul to flexibly walk into the tower. At the same time as his own death, he released skills and used the attack of the defense tower to replace Flower.

Although MG still suffered a small loss (the first blood has a higher profit), this is already the best result. Whether it is the audience who supported Qi Ji and MG on the scene, or the other players of MG, they all breathed a sigh of relief.

But this also verified from the side that KDG's strength is really very strong, otherwise Qi Ji would probably be able to avoid this kind of gank.

The battle in the middle lane had just eased slightly when KDG's soul tank canyua suddenly attacked, trying to kill blacksky Duan Tianya by taking advantage of the soldiers that were pressed into the tower.

Duan Tianya was already behind canyua in the laning phase. If he was killed again at this time, there would be a huge gap between him and canyua, which would likely indirectly affect his ability to hold the front line and pull the opponent's C position in team battles.

However, just when Duan Tianya was attacked and only had a layer of blood left, canyua suddenly made a major operational mistake - his second skill was wasted. Seeing this, he had to control his hero soul to leave the tower and give up the solo kill.

At this time, Duan Tianya, who was only left with a layer of blood, was known for his steadiness and blue-collar work. He finally survived and did not save himself and retreat back to the city as he did in the past.

Instead, he rushed up unexpectedly, killed canyua with his first skill, and successfully locked his last drop of blood to survive. MG immediately took the lead in kills and economy.

I didn't expect that Duan Tianya, who was always calm and even criticized by many radical fans for being "too ferocious", could still have such courage and operation when he fell behind and the opponent was in great momentum. Although he couldn't hear it, the commentators and the audience gave him warm applause and crazy screams.

Perhaps this is the world championship, a stage that carries the dreams of players and allows every player to shine.

The disadvantage in the top lane suddenly reversed, and Yuan Zhuo did not dare to delay for a second, and immediately rushed over to take the magic worm resources between the top and middle lanes.

Because MG always controlled the line in the bottom lane, KDG's Soul Thorn Ben never found an opportunity to obtain the dragon resources. In the end, the first dragon was taken by Yuan Zhuo and Qi Ji while Flower returned to the city to replenish equipment.

Next, the two sides relied on their own operations, awareness and cooperation to fight several wonderful team battles and tugs. Although MG was slightly ahead, KDG also held on to the economy tightly, and the victory or defeat of both sides was only a moment.

When fighting for the first dragon, Duan Tianya, who was in the front, was accidentally killed by Flower and Ares. In the end, KDG successfully got their first dragon, but MG did not retreat. Instead, they took advantage of the chaos to kill their soul tank and soul assassin. After recovering a little loss, they immediately returned to defend.

With the dragon buff, KDG pushed down MG's middle tower, upper tower, and upper tower, and took a 3000+ economic advantage.

But when the dragon buff was about to end, Qi Ji suddenly caught Ares who was returning to the city in the bushes and got a big head bounty, which saved a little bit of the economic disadvantage. At this point, the economy of both sides was pulled back to the range of a few hundred.

This sudden harvest immediately lifted everyone's spirits. In the headset, everyone couldn't help but exclaim "beautiful". Even Zhu Yu, who was always gentle and calm, couldn't help but ask.

"Qi Shen, how did you find out?"

Qi Ji couldn't explain it clearly, but it could be summed up as follows.

"Experience and prediction."

He guessed that he would return to the city at that position. Fortunately, he was indeed at that position.

Afterwards, the two sides went back and forth, and each team got three small dragons, one big dragon, and the number of heads also increased. The economy never widened.

The final decisive battle was the Fire Dragon Soul Group 28 seconds later.

The Fire Dragon Soul can greatly increase the attack buff. If the equipment, operation, and coordination of both sides are similar and there are no major mistakes, whoever takes the Fire Dragon Soul will be the winner of this game.

Therefore, they must take it down. Staring at the Fire Dragon Soul, Qi Ji's eyes are like torches, and he gives orders firmly and neatly.

"Xiao Wa releases skills to test the opponent's position."

Qi Ji said immediately after seeing that Flower and Ben were in the front position.

"Flower will retreat, Tianya and I will go around and kill him, Xiaowa will protect Yuan Zhuo and Zhu Yu and pretend to start the dragon attack. After freezing Flower, you immediately give up the dragon attack and come over."

Although he was not sure whether Flower would really retreat as Qi Ji predicted after noticing that they saw his position, Duan Tianya still followed Qi Ji's command without hesitation.

Carefully avoiding the opponent's vision, they went around to the back of KDG. Qi Ji directly released his second skill with blind vision. As the skill vision progressed, it turned out that Flower was actually frozen.

Faced with such an outcome, Flower was stunned. He thought Qi Ji would make such a prediction, so he took advantage of the situation and retreated, wanting to take the opportunity to kill the person who was behind.

But he didn't expect Qi Ji to go around in person. If he was killed by mistake, MG would collapse.

But now he not only went around in person, but also used a skill with blind vision to dazzle him...

Although he knew they were about to lose this game, flower's eyes were ignited with even stronger excitement and fighting spirit. Sure enough, the world championship with Qi Ji was the real world championship.

While Duan Tianya was holding back the soul assistant next to flower, Qi Ji directly killed flower and released a concise command.

"Encircle!"

Yuan Zhuo and his two teammates immediately gave up on the dragon and surrounded them instead. Although the opponent's soul sniper Ares reacted quickly and killed Cheng Xiaowa who was protecting Yuan Zhuo and Zhu Yu, at the same time, Qi Ji, Duan Tianya, Yuan Zhuo, and Zhu Yu had already cooperated to kill the other three KDG players.

After Duan Tianya died after blocking Ares' amazing damage, Qi Ji killed Ares alone, Yuan Zhuo and Zhu Yu turned to attack the dragon, and MG got the Fire Dragon Soul!

As everyone expected, although KDG had done well enough, MG, who got the Fire Dragon Soul, was unstoppable. Finally, 56 minutes after the start of the game, they smashed KDG's Heroic Spirit Tower and won the first game!