Chapter 81 Semi-finals (Part 2)

After a full 56 minutes of highly focused, tense and exciting competition, everyone breathed a sigh of relief and was extremely happy when they confirmed their victory.

Yuan Zhuo couldn't help but hug Qi Ji, who was about to go back to the lounge with everyone.

Qi Ji was in a good mood, at least the pressure on everyone in the next round would not be so great, but he was not excited, he knew that everything was not over yet.

Looking at Yuan Zhuo, his usual cold voice was tinged with a little pampering and gentleness.

"Okay, calm down."

Noticing that the camera seemed to have really turned around, Yuan Zhuo quickly put Qi Ji down, took a deep breath, and walked to the lounge with everyone with a happy smile.

After stepping off the stage, Yuan Zhuo immediately approached Qi Ji, rubbed his right wrist, and asked in a low voice.

"Are you tired? Does it hurt?"

It was really tiring. Even if it wasn't a competition, even if they just concentrated on doing something for an hour, everyone would definitely feel tired.

What's more, they were still competing, and they had to operate, judge, and deal with various emergencies anytime and anywhere. This kind of tiredness is hard to describe in words. I can only say that fortunately they are all professional players and are used to it.

But if possible, it's best not to drag it to the fifth game. This is not only a physical challenge to everyone, but more of a mental and psychological challenge.

As for the wrist, he was fine. After all, he played a closed game, and there was only some normal soreness.

Qi Ji shook his head and responded to Yuan Zhuo softly.

"It's okay, let's go back and prepare for the second game." Yes,

the game is not over yet. Only by winning three games against KDG can they enter the finals.

KDG is not so easy to deal with. In the second game, they were obviously prepared and released a killer in the BP stage.

As the red team, they chose a very strange and unpopular hero for their soul sniper Ares - Bomb Boy.

MG, who had already selected the lineup, was a little stunned when facing their choice, and couldn't help but start a discussion in the headset.

"It's too bold to choose this, isn't it? This is not Ares' style?"

Yuan Zhuo said so. Ares has always been known for his boldness, ferocity, and quick, accurate, and ruthless operation. However, the characteristics of Bomb Boy are indeed that he is much more tanky than other soul sniper heroes, and the development time is still very long. He usually hides behind his teammates and throws bombs.

Although the bomb is a small matrix when thrown, which is very annoying, it is really useless in the early stage, and you still need to play cautiously, which is very inconsistent with Ares' style.

Just when everyone was confused, after thinking for a few seconds, the experienced Qi Ji realized KDG's intention.

"They want to release Didy and let him roam around the field."

As Qi Ji said, after the game started, it didn't take long for KDG's support to leave Ares alone on the line and run to other lanes to roam and assist everyone.

Although MG took precautions, Didy's roaming was irregular and he would jump out from time to time to cooperate with his teammates, causing a lot of difficulties for MG.

What's worse is that although Ares was alone on the line, MG tried to catch him many times, but he was always impulsive, but this time he was so stable, retreating when he should, and abandoning the line when he should. With the help of his teammates, his development did not lag behind much.

After the game was dragged into 40 minutes again, the role of Bomb Boy began to emerge. Every time the game was about to start, the MG players would encounter the bomb matrix projected by Bomb Boy from a long distance. Although the damage would not explode, the exploding bombs would cause dizziness if they could not dodge in time, which gave the other KDG players a lot of room to operate.

Although Qi Ji and the other players of MG tried to get out of this dilemma in many ways, they still did not find a good solution on the spot.

Seeing that the game was about to be dragged into 50 minutes, Qi Ji made a decisive judgment and command in order to not let everyone continue to suffer and affect their mentality and state in the subsequent games.

"Give up this game, and prepare for the next one."

Although everyone didn't want to give up, after all, if they could win this game, they would be 2:0 ahead and have three match points. This would bring great psychological pressure to KDG and increase their chances of entering the finals. After all, there has never been an example of a comeback from 2-0 to 3-0 in the entire HOW history.

If they lose, it will be 1:1, and they will have to go back to the starting line with KDG. Everything is unknown, and huge pressure will come again.

But at the moment, they really don't have a good solution, so they all choose to believe Qi Ji's judgment.

"Got it."

"Okay."

So with MG's deliberate giving up, KDG quickly ended the game and the score came to 1:1.

Now not only the members of MG were nervous again, but also the commentators and the audience at the scene and online were nervous and excited.

After returning to the locker room, Coach Wang organized everyone to review the game, trying to find a way to deal with Bomb Boy.

After thinking for a while, Qi Ji spoke directly.

"We should not be trapped by MG. My suggestion is to ban him directly."

Bomb Boy was indeed not within their analysis expectations, but instead of spending a lot of time looking for a solution to it, it is better to ban him directly and play according to their own ideas and tactics.

Otherwise, they may be deeply trapped in KDG's thinking and trap, and completely mess up the order.

Qi Ji's words woke everyone up from their dreams. Yes, they didn't have soul coins, and there were few souls to choose from. Even if they banned Bomb Boy, it would consume one of their ban slots, but with their soul reserves, as long as they chose the red side, they could still deal with their new lineup.

The main reason was that KDG chose the red side, and Bomb Boy was played at the last minute, which caught them off guard.

KDG was indeed well prepared, but they also had a lot of tactics of their own. Why should they be led into their thinking and comfort zone by KDG?

So far, everyone once again thoroughly felt that Qi Ji's arrival brought them not only an improvement in strength, but more importantly, these precious competition experiences and unique understanding of the game.

So, at the beginning of the third game, MG took the initiative to choose the red side.

After seeing them ban Bomb Boy so easily, KDG's players indeed started discussing in their headphones.

"They actually banned him. I thought they would find a way to force other lineups to deal with our system."

"What a pity. If that were the case, our BP would be much easier."

In this regard, flower felt sorry for MG not falling into their trap, and was excited about the opponent's alertness. He firmly believed that all this must be related to Qi Ji. He couldn't help but murmur.

"MG is really lucky to have Qi Ji."

If there was no Qi Ji, he believed that it would be easy for them to defeat MG. After all, they had suffered the loss of arrogance last year and would not repeat the same mistake.

Of course, if they defeated the team with Qi Ji, he would be more excited. Such a game would be interesting, and such a championship would be more valuable.

In the discussion between the two sides, the BP of the third game soon ended. Facing KDG's new lineup, MG also took out their first hidden tactic - the Flower Fairy system.

Flower Fairy is a soul of HOW. She looks like a cute little flower fairy with brown hair and blue eyes and colorful clothes. Her main skill is to release flower balls to stun the opponent. When someone is stunned by the flowers sent by the flower fairy, the petals will spread from her body and splash onto other people, causing considerable damage.

However, most soul mages don't like to use this hero because its stun skill range is too small, it is difficult to hit, and the skill often misses. For a long time, no team has developed the Flower Fairy system.

MG was developed secretly because Qi Ji proposed it. In order to prevent his opponents from seeing this trump card, Qi Ji did not use it in public rankings or training matches, and could only practice it privately.

After the game started, Qi Ji gained a certain advantage at the beginning due to the flower fairy's advantage in the early laning phase.

However, flower is worthy of being a world champion at the age of 19 and is known as a genius soul player. Under Qi Ji's sudden gank, she escaped with a sliver of blood with her extremely fast reaction.

Fortunately, although there was not much gain, Qi Ji did not lose anything.

But soon, MG's flower fairy system made KDG miserable.

Compared to the previous game, when Bomb Boy caused trouble to MG in the teamfight, Qi Ji's Flower Fairy not only put KDG under tremendous pressure before the teamfight started, but even in the single lane, he used his extremely accurate skills to kill KDG members again and again.

Such accurate kills almost made the KDG players' mentality collapse.

"Is he really 25 years old? Is he lying about his age? Ah Xi!"

Although it was not appropriate to boost others' ambitions and destroy his own prestige at this time, as Qi Ji's fan, Didy couldn't help but praise Qi Ji in a low voice.

"He is a super genius. This year, his condition seems to have regressed by almost ten years."

When thinking of the 16-year-old Qi Ji, although we have never played against him at that time, as professional players, we can feel how terrifying his peak strength is just by watching the video. It is no problem to say that he is invincible.

Facing the god-like flower fairy, KDG was ultimately powerless and lost the game at 28 minutes.

The score also came to 2:1. MG only needs to win one more game to get a ticket to the finals!

The victory of this game is crucial for the players of MG. Not only did everyone breathe a sigh of relief again, but they finally didn't have to play a bladder game (a very long game) anymore, and they could relax their bodies and minds a little.

Otherwise, playing three games of more than 40 minutes in a row would make even a machine numb.

During the break, Yuan Zhuo still found a chance to rub Qi Ji's wrist.

Fortunately, after playing three high-intensity games, everyone was very tired, so their behavior was not abrupt and no one noticed anything.

In the fourth game, KDG, unwilling to fall behind, seemed to have emptied out their resources during the BP and got a very good lineup.

Of course, MG also got a lineup that made them more comfortable, thanks to the vast pool of heroes in each position and Qi Ji's experience advantage.

But it seemed that they really didn't want to end their journey to the World Championship. In the fourth game, KDG played very carefully, and the whole team cooperated so well that they were almost like one person, making it almost impossible for MG to find any flaws.

Just like the first game, the two sides continued to fight until the 52nd minute. After catching MG accidentally revealing a few small flaws, KDG successfully dragged the game to the fifth game. The two sides are back on the same starting line again. The battle song of the fifth game of BO5 is about to sound!

Who will get the first ticket to the S10 World Championship Finals?

Is it MG, who has the God of HOW and is also the defending champion of this year, and wants to complete the golden road that has never been seen in history?

Or is it KDG, the champion team of the previous year, who has entered the World Championship finals every year for the past four years, and is eager for revenge?

The audience on site and online are waiting anxiously and nervously.