Lin Mingfei's words always seemed to cut through the mystery with a single stroke of his sword. Xia Tong, after being shaken and enlightened twice, completely cleared her mind. This round, he completely abandoned his desire to win. He told himself clearly that he simply wanted to see how far Sabertooth Tiger's plans would go. He would remain constant in the face of change.
——If he could figure out the enemy’s strategy, he would have achieved his goal.
So he simply stood still, thinking that the worst that could happen would be that Dylan would use him as a stake and snipe him to death.
Afterwards, he witnessed the four Sabretooths complete a whole set of smooth "non-physical performances" in just over ten seconds.
If it was Xia Tong, who was like a frightened bird in the previous round, he would have started to flee in panic after seeing Dylan and the goblins attacking almost at the same time, and would have had to use obstacles to avoid them. Then he would have fallen precisely into the blind spot between the pillars - that was the cage planned for him by Dylan.
But in this round, Xia Tong didn't play according to the routine. He took a few steps forward and then turned back. His two mistakes made it impossible for Sabretooth to stop the team's formation. They were stuck in the blind spots carefully selected by Dylan to varying degrees. Only Yoyo was left flying in the air, left in the sight of the five Polaris people, receiving five death stares.
When Xia Tong suggested focusing on Yoyo, she felt a little reluctant, because Yoyo's situation in Sabertooth Tiger was so similar to her own.
Yoyo was chased all the way and died quickly. The entire saber-toothed tiger team was weaned and there was no further news.
After Xia Tong quit the game, she thought about the situation just now, held her forehead and sighed softly.
"Yoyo is in such a miserable state. He and I are in the same boat. Four people are chasing him and beating him! He can't even use any skills! Just get out of here and die!" He expressed his sympathy with all his heart.
At this time, the other four people in Polaris had just left the map. When they heard his sigh, they all showed a look of disgust.
Bo Yu: "...What? You actually have mercy on Yoyo?"
Zhou Yanjun: "But it was you who just chopped Yoyo's wings to a crisp."
Shi Ya: "This is a mockery, right? Right?"
Xia Tong turned her head in confusion and said, "No, I really do feel sorry for Yoyo. His teammates are too unreliable and sell him out at every turn."
"What if it happened again?" Lin Mingfei smiled and crossed her arms: "Who would you choose to hit?"
Xia Tong said without hesitation: "Yoyo!"
The four people around couldn't help but burst into laughter.
"Very good, very hypocritical, you have already become a pure e-sports player." Zhou Yanjun gave him a thumbs up.
"What kind of a melting pot is our team? They've actually turned Xia Xiaotong, who was once so pure and kind, into this state." Shi Ya didn't know whether to laugh or cry. "None of you are innocent."
Lin Mingfei laughed along, clenched her fist and raised it to Xia Tong's lips: "Interview you, Xia Xiaotong, what prompted you to grow up so quickly and become so cruel and ruthless?"
"Yes..." Xia Tong opened his mouth, wanting to say something but stopping himself. His watery and clear eyes inadvertently brushed across Lin Mingfei's face, and then settled on the alpha's eyebrows, warm and firm.
Lin Mingfei was stunned by his gaze. His heart skipped a beat for some reason. A palpitation like premature contractions spread in his chest. He was at a loss. He couldn't stand the impact of such gentle emotions. He hurriedly turned his head and changed the subject, saying, "Alright, all of you hurry up and fix your equipment, adjust your skills, and prepare for the third round."
On the other side, Yoyo came out of the arena, his whole mentality collapsed.
"What are you guys doing?! Why is my view blocked?! I can't heal anyone!! I was chasing you guys! And then I got caught by Polaris!!"
The goblin didn't think much and blurted out, "Brother D told us that within thirty seconds—"
He was rudely interrupted by Dylan before he could finish his words: "Didn't you even mention it when you didn't see Blink when you used your skill? Or are you just blindly playing in the arena and don't rely on your vision at all?"
The goblin was inexplicably sprayed in the face and was momentarily stunned: "I didn't—what the hell! Blink didn't move from where he was. Shouldn't you be the first to count? You were the one staring at him the whole time!"
"I have to take command and have an overall view of the situation. Do I have to report such trivial things to you? Am I your mother?" Dylan sneered.
The goblin was anxious: "No! That's not what I meant. Oh, I...why the hell are you doing this—"
"What about me? You're just slacking off and you can't let me say anything?" Dylan said sarcastically.
Seeing that they were about to quarrel again, Yoyo quickly intervened to stop the fight: "Alright, alright, no one should blame each other at this time. I'll just die, it's okay."
Mo Lan also tried to smooth things over: "Just now it was mainly because we were careless. In those ten or so seconds, no one had time to think. We just relied on muscle memory to fight."
Robin King said in a deep voice: "Blink is smarter than we thought. He saw through our routine after just one round. We can't play like this in the next round. We should play more conventionally."
Mo Lan said objectively, "It doesn't really matter whether Blink is smart or not. The main thing is that we have Zero here. Zero has always been a tactical master with an extremely sharp eye. Our little trick may work once, but trying to fool him twice is unlikely. We better not hope for the best."
"If you ask me, it's just that some people lack the ability to react on the spot." Dylan said with a sullen look on his face. "I just yell 'one, two, three, four' and they just follow me like a charm? When did holographic esports become just calisthenics?"
The goblin blushed. "You were the one who said we had to get first blood within thirty seconds. I believed you! I also wanted to win honor for the team—"
"Did you get it?" Dylan asked back: "If not, shut up."
Dylan's attitude was unusually tough. The training match was only halfway through, and Goblin had no choice but to grit his teeth and endure the subsequent rebuttal due to his position in the team.
They didn't have much time to argue, and the third game started soon.
After the map reading ended, both teams entered a glacial world with cold wind and snow. In the middle of the rushing azure glacier, there was a raised square platform. On the platform stood a stone tablet with a special mark and totem engraved on it, like a switch.
"Fuck, how did I get to this map!" Zhou Yanjun exclaimed.
There are many maps in the arena, most of which will only randomly increase the difficulty of the PK between the two sides, but there are also a small number of maps with their own unique game mechanisms, such as this "Nine Profound Glacier Land". After being seriously injured in the map, both sides of the competition can be resurrected infinitely at the nearest resurrection point. Only when one side smashes the "Nine Profound Stele" on the platform can it be considered a winner.
This type of map is more complicated than ordinary arena maps. As long as it is not a simple fight between each other, it can torture the PVP party to death. The game officials probably felt that it was quite difficult when making it, so there are not many of them. When all maps are randomly drawn, the probability of their appearance is also very low.
But once you are in line, it becomes a headache.
Both the saber-toothed tiger and the polaris rushed towards the stone tablet in the middle of the glacier at almost the speed of a 100-meter sprint.
"Xia Tong, you have high burst damage, go and open the stone tablet!! Let's stop them!!!" Lin Mingfei shouted.
"Got it!" Zhou Yanjun and Bo Yu received the order and rushed into the saber-toothed tiger's ranks at lightning speed. Like a solid lock, they directly blocked Mo Lan and the goblin who tried to rush forward.
Xia Tong ran towards the glacier without thinking. The temperature simulation here was extremely realistic, and the cold wind stung his face. Xia Tong jumped up, his omega body was light, he cast a spell in reverse, and his skills whipped up snow dust in the snow, forming a reverse force that pushed him to the high platform in the center of the glacier.
"I'm going up--" Xia Tong shouted excitedly, and was about to reach out to touch the edge of the platform happily. At this moment, Mo Lan broke free from Bo Yu's shackles, and rushed out like a lightning black panther, releasing an earth-shaking beast roar!
With a loud boom! The beast's roar unleashed a massive AoE wave that blew the young wizard up from the air. The wind filled his hood, bulging it like a parachute. Xia Tong's limbs frantically clawed and clawed, his fingertips straining to the limit, but he still couldn't grasp the iron chain on the platform. Like a piece of paper, he was dragged away by the "parachute" he was wearing.
"Ahhhh Mommy Duck let me go!" Xia Tong was floating and rolling in the air, looking both pitiful and funny. He was like a big hydrogen balloon, trying hard to stabilize his body's center of gravity, but it was no use. He was too light. He could only watch the platform and the stone tablet moving farther and farther away from him, and finally fell into the fast-flowing glacier with a "splash".
The two debuffs of cold and choking made him lose blood continuously. Finally, Dylan shot him twice from a distance and he was dead. He had to go back to the resurrection point and start all over again.
Not only did this trip waste time, but history always repeated itself surprisingly. Every time he stood on the river bank and tried to fly across to the platform, he would miss his destination due to the air currents and the wizard's cloak.
Needless to say, the saber-toothed tiger won again.
After coming out, Xia Tong stomped her feet in anger: "Ahhhhh I hate this map!!"
"It's my fault. I made a mistake in judgment. I shouldn't have assigned you to open the stone tablet." Lin Mingfei raised her hands in surrender: "I should have been the one to open the stone tablet this time."
"But you have to command and keep an eye on the overall situation." Shi Ya said, "There's nothing we can do about it."
Zhou Yanjun cursed loudly, "Damn it! How could I be so unlucky to end up on this map? This isn't PVP at all!"
Bo Yu: "This is very pvx."
Xia Tong waved her fists and said anxiously, "We should kill the saber-tooth tigers first! Then, while they're returning to the resurrection point, we should open the stone tablet!"
"How can it be that easy?" Lin Mingfei said, not knowing whether to laugh or cry. "The respawn point on this map is not far from the main battlefield. They can revive infinitely and quickly fill positions to engage in a tug-of-war. So the best strategy is to find an opportunity to open the stone tablet."
"I don't think we will be matched with this map in the next round!" Xia Tong said angrily.
The other four people in the team all gave him a look that said, "Just shut up."
In the fourth game, they lined up.
In the fierce cold wind, Zhou Yanjun and his White Wolf King both sneezed, then turned their heads and stared at Xia Tong: "...I told you to shut up!"
The most powerful poison milk Xia Xiaotong: "qaq!!!"
Shi Ya also rarely abandoned his elegance and hunched his neck. "To be matched with this map twice in a row, the probability is so low! I won't believe you if you say the system is not a glitch!!"
Bo Yu's face was wooden: "So how do we fight?"
Lin Mingfei thought for two seconds: "Xia Tong, can you, as a wizard, play control flow?"
Xia Tong's eyes lit up and she nodded vigorously: "I can, I can!"
Lin Mingfei: "Then Xiaobo, go open the stone tablet."
Bo Yu: "No problem."
"Huh? So this round, I have to cooperate with the dwarf to block the opponent?" Zhou Yanjun looked a little excited.
"That's right. It's okay if I can't block them and lower their health. I will harvest as much as possible and let them return to the resurrection point more times." Lin Mingfei said without changing her expression.
"No, no, no! I can definitely stop him!" Xia Tong said firmly: "Zero, believe me! I have practiced before! "
Although he was disturbed by the uninvited goblin that day, Xia Tong still got the "Budan's Heart Blood" he wanted. When this enchantment is applied to a weapon, all skills used will have an 80% chance of slowing down the target.
mmdou said in an interview that the effect of this enchantment is actually a bit useless, because 80% of the probability is simply based on luck. When you use a skill, if you are lucky, you can slow down the enemy, and if you are unlucky... it is equivalent to not using this enchantment. This increases a lot of uncertainty, so if you are an ordinary person, you may prefer to choose an enchantment that has a clear and stable effect of increasing attack power.
But it's different for Xia Tong. Due to his personal physical advantage, his CD is shorter than that of ordinary people, and the number of skills he can release in the same time is twice as many as that of ordinary people. Such skill density greatly reduces the uncertainty caused by probability of this enchantment.
He worked together with Zhou Yanjun to make the Sabretooth group feel like they had stepped into a sticky swamp, unable to move forward.
"I'll let you guys come and get me!!" Xia Tong didn't even breathe when he used his skills. He stayed at the maximum distance and attacked the goblins indiscriminately: "I'll make you look down on control flow!!"
The goblin was beaten back step by step, but couldn't touch him. Mo Lan, who was standing beside him, couldn't move either. He couldn't help but say speechlessly: "I say, are you guilty of a private sin, blink?"
The goblin was speechless: "I..."
When both sides are equally strong, tactics often decide everything.
Two to two, they tied.
After the saber-toothed tiger came out, the place fell into an eerie silence.
After a long while, Mo Lan spoke first, "I think we can't underestimate Blink. He's very strong."
Robin King: "I agree. As an omega... he has his own unique advantages. We must acknowledge that."
Yoyo sighed: "He really just looks cute = =."
Dylan drooped his eyelids and did not respond immediately. He crossed his arms as if thinking, with an obscure expression.
Goblin said: "I think we... still have to focus on him. He may be very strong, but his weakness is that he has no actual combat experience. As long as Zero doesn't point him out in time, we can find a breakthrough point-"
"You're right." Dylan said for the first time.
Goblin: “!”
Dylan said calmly: "I feel like you know Blink very well, tell me more."
The goblin was a little flattered by the sudden attention he received. "Ah...it's nothing actually. Blink has been trying a control style lately. His weapon should be enchanted with 'Budd's Heartblood', which is why it has such a strong deceleration effect."
"What about the next round?" Dylan continued to ask.
Goblin said tentatively, "We've been playing very proactively, so Blink is really good at counterattacking. If we don't chase him, his control flow won't work, and he'll definitely turn around and chase us. Then we can consider counterattacking him—"
"That's a good idea." Mo Lan said, "If we can disconnect him from Zero's rhythm, it will be easier to fight."
Dylan didn't argue this time, but nodded: "Okay, let's do as the goblin says."
Goblin was faintly excited: "Thank you, Brother D, for your recognition!"
"The next game is our match point." Robin King looked very serious: "If we lose, it will be difficult to explain to Manager Zhao..."
His words touched everyone's sore spot.
In fact, the essence of losing the game is not just the inability to explain to Zhao Xin, the most important thing is the inability to explain to the capitalists behind the investment in Sabretooth. Those guys don't care about the victory and defeat in e-sports, they only focus on the stock. Now that Sabretooth is at its peak, any leak of signs will be seized by others to criticize it. These are all closely related to the stock price behind them. The slightest fluctuation of those red and green curves will make the blood pressure of these capitalists soar, and they will be angry and blame the players playing the game.
The atmosphere became more solemn.
In the end, it was Goblin who broke the deadlock first. He encouraged his teammates with positivity and optimism: "We won't lose. We are Sabretooth Tigers, strong and experienced! How could we possibly lose to the newly formed Polaris? Besides, we have the strongest brother D in the universe! Brother D, don't you agree?"
The corners of Dylan's lips curled up dryly, and he smiled perfunctorily: "Yes, you are right."
Compared to the tense and depressing atmosphere at Sabretooth, the atmosphere at Polaris was very relaxed, with a group of people chattering freely.
"Two to two. Somehow, I feel so satisfied now that I even want to lie down and stop fighting." Zhou Yanjun said with a satisfied look on his face.
"Me too. I used to think the saber-toothed tiger was so powerful, but now I see it's just averagely powerful." Bo Yu said.
"I didn't expect Xia Tong to be so good at control flow. It's really beyond my expectations." Shi Ya said with a smile: "You are such a treasure little wizard. You can always surprise people!"
"Hehe, the main thing is that their brainpower is still slightly inferior to Zero's." Xia Tong scratched his head and grinned. He always became energetic when Zero was mentioned. He turned to look at Lin Mingfei's expression: "Hey, Zero? What are you thinking about? Why don't you say anything?"
"I'm thinking about something." Lin Mingfei pinched her chin with one hand and pondered, "Two out of the four games were played on maps that weren't simple duels. It doesn't seem like a coincidence..."
"Hmm?" Shi Ya agreed. "I also think this probability is not right. Is there a bug in the official random algorithm?"
"Generally speaking, not really..." Lin Mingfei said softly, "These non-simple battle maps were just released last season. Before that, the league was always a battle between teams and players... It's been going on for years, and I think the league might be a little tired of it."
"What do you mean?" Shi Ya was slightly surprised. "Are you saying that the Royal Mausoleum officials have deliberately adjusted the algorithm to apply this type of map to the league on a large scale?"
"It's very likely. Sabertooth and we are both the focus of attention right now. This training match was arranged by the official team. Maybe they are using us as guinea pigs?" Lin Mingfei snapped her fingers and said, "I boldly predict that the next game will most likely be on a similar map."
"Ah? Then what should we do? There's no way to prepare a plan in advance!" Zhou Yanjun exclaimed in shock. "This is too bad! I still prefer to play a hedging game with the opponent! Simple and rough, playing on this map is giving me a headache!"
"Do you think the alliance registered you so you can enjoy yourself? You're just a worker." Lin Mingfei scoffed and shrugged, saying, "It's okay, it's just a training match anyway, just think of it as a chance to broaden your horizons. It's also a good opportunity to get to know Sabertooth Tiger better. Win or lose, it doesn't matter."
"Who said that? It doesn't matter! It matters!" Xia Tong was very unhappy when she heard that. She stretched out her thin arms and stomped her feet hard. "Those bastards Sabretooth, I'm going to kill them all!"
His temper was quite unreasonable. Lin Mingfei was stunned for a moment, lowered her eyes lazily, and reached out to pat Xia Tong's little head like a ball: "You are so young, don't be so murderous!"
Zhou Yanjun, who was watching the fun from the side, interrupted without thinking, "That's right, I thought the Sabertooth Tigers had done something terrible to you!"
Xia Tong gnashed his teeth in anger when he thought of how his captain, Lin Mingfei, who was glorious and holy, was slandered by the goblins that day. "It's not me! It's Zero! Zero!"
Lin Mingfei's forehead twitched, and she said in confusion, "Huh?"
Xia Tong was so angry that she blurted out: "They tarnished Zero's innocence!!"
“…???”
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