The group walked towards the meeting room of the wandering circus.

Wang Shun followed behind Bai Liu, and from time to time he looked back worriedly at the small warehouse where Mu Ke was, whose door had not yet been opened: "Mu Ke, are you really okay? It's hard to regain consciousness after being forced to merge memories."

"It's okay for now." Bai Liu replied casually, "He will take care of it himself."

"I'll take over if I can't handle it properly. Let me first report what happened recently."

Wang Shun reluctantly put his mind at ease. Holding a pile of folders, he stepped forward and opened the door of the conference room for Bai Liu.

Bai Liu bowed slightly to express his gratitude.

Wang Shun placed the documents on the long table in the conference room and pulled out the main seat for Bai Liu to sit down.

Liu Jiayi, Tang Erda and Mu Sicheng sat on both sides of the long table. Wang Shun walked to the end of the table and opened his system panel, which brought up a huge floating panel. Wang Shun reported recent major events to Bai Liu as if he was playing a PPT.

"First, let me emphasize the league's operating rules."

"The league is divided into pre-season, mid-season, and playoffs."

"The pre-season is the league we will be participating in soon. The main participating teams are some new teams with no foundation and some old teams that are not very strong. The main confrontation mechanism is random confrontation. You will play against the team whose enemy you are drawn to in the next game. If you win, you will advance. If you lose, you will be eliminated directly."

"The first two teams that advance to the final of the preseason, that is, the champion and runner-up, can directly enter the post-season challenge game, and except for these two teams, the rest of the preseason teams are eliminated."

Wang Shun clicked on the system panel:

“The mid-season tournament is a round-robin points system.”

"The participating teams in the mid-season tournament are the top 30 teams in last year's league rankings and the two teams remaining from last year's preseason, for a total of 32 teams."

"There are 496 games in total in the mid-season tournament. Each team will play a round with 31 other teams except itself. Each round includes singles, doubles and team matches."

"Winning a singles match earns 1 point, winning a doubles match earns 3 points, and winning a team match earns 8 points."

"After the 496 games are over, the top eight teams with the highest accumulated points among the 32 teams will enter the playoffs. The two teams with the lowest accumulated points will be disqualified from participating in next year's mid-season tournament, and their qualifications will be given to the two teams that won the final preseason games this year."

Wang Shun gave an example to illustrate:

"For example, if the first place in last year's preseason was in the Killer Sequence, then this year they don't have to start from the preseason, but can directly enter the mid-season tournament. The last two teams eliminated from the mid-season tournament last year will have to start from the preseason."

Wang Shun's brows turned serious:

"The following is the focus of my report today, which is also the serious situation you will face as you enter the preseason."

"The overall fighting quality and fighting level of the preseason teams are not high, but there are two teams that you must be vigilant against. They are the two teams that were eliminated from the mid-season tournament last year."

"One of these two teams is called Russell Cemetery, and the other is called Furious Lambs."

Wang Shun clicked it, and the PPT turned to another page, on which a gloomy collective cemetery logo appeared.

"Collective Cemetery is the logo of Russell Cemetery. They ranked 12th the year before last, and ranked 8th in the mid-season tournament last year, entered the playoffs, and were picked by Spades in the challenge tournament, becoming the first team to face the challenge tournament."

Wang Shun looked at everyone and slowly exhaled:

"I believe we can all guess the result of this challenge. Killer Sequence won, but Killer Sequence paid a heavy price for this victory. This is also the main reason why I think they recruited the Judge of the God of Rebellion as a tactician this year."

"In this match against Russell Cemetery, the Killer Team lost a member and Spade was seriously injured and nearly died. It was a very tragic victory."

Mu Sicheng was dizzy after hearing this: "That's not right. Russell Cemetery made it to the top eight last year and participated in the playoffs. How could they not be eliminated from the mid-season tournament?"

"Why did you drop to the preseason to play against us this year?"

Wang Shun looked at the collective cemetery logo on the panel with a complicated look: "...This is a long story."

"The normal league process is this: the mid-season game selects eight teams with high points to enter the playoffs, and the preseason selects the champions and runners-up. The champions and runners-up of the preseason randomly select two teams from these eight teams that enter the playoffs to compete against each other."

"If the champion and runner-up of the preseason win, they can replace the two drawn teams and enter the playoffs. If the champion and runner-up lose, these eight teams will proceed with the playoffs as normal."

“So the challenge tournament is generally called ‘10 to 8’, but some players use the term more loosely, and some even call it ‘16 to 8’.”

"The two teams that lost in the challenge will have to face off in the final to compete for the ninth and tenth places in the league."

"After losing to the Killer Sequence, Russell Cemetery entered the qualifying match for the top 90. However, in this qualifying match, Russell Cemetery's tactician lost his balance and made mistakes, resulting in the team being wiped out."

The whole place was silent.

Mu Sicheng couldn't help but glance towards Bai Liu.

...The influence of the tactician on the entire team is really huge.

"After being wiped out, Russell Cemetery got the tenth place in the ranking. Logically, they could have participated in the mid-season tournament normally this year, but they gave up this ranking and the qualification to directly participate in the mid-season tournament this year, and chose to start all over again from the pre-season."

Wang Shunshen raised his hand and clicked the panel again, and the introduction of the Russell Cemetery team appeared on the PPT.

"Russell Cemetery, the nickname circulated among players is the 'Double Cannon Team'. The reason for this nickname is that this team will directly abandon the singles and doubles matches as soon as they enter the field, fire two blanks, and only play the team game."

"Because they gave up singles and doubles competitions and lacked outstanding individual performance, this team failed to cultivate star players." Wang Shun clicked the panel and continued to introduce, "In other words, in Russell Cemetery, the players are not important at all."

"That's the number of deaths they've had in the league over the years."

Mu Sicheng looked at the numbers and gasped: "Last year, Russell played in the mid-season game and more than 80 players died?!"

"That's right." Wang Shun narrated calmly, "In 31 games, Russell lost 82 players, an average of 2.64 players per game, and this is when they gave up singles and doubles matches."

"Why did so many people die?!" Mu Sicheng was really shocked.

Bai Liu looked at the introduction of Russell Cemetery and said, "The core tactics of Russell Cemetery is to use skills reasonably based on the characteristics of other guilds, right?"

Wang Shun looked at Bai Liu and said, "Yes, Russell Cemetery prepares more than 500 reserve team members every year."

Bai Liu seemed to understand something: "Most of these team members are new, right?"

Wang Shun nodded: "Yes, most of these reserve team members have never participated in the league. Even in the team match against the Killer Sequence, the players on Russell Cemetery were basically pure rookies."

Mu Sicheng turned around and looked at Bai Liu, full of questions: "What does this mean? How did you know?"

"A large number of new players died, they rotated players at a high frequency, gave up singles and doubles competitions, did not train star players, and concentrated on the team competition." Bai Liu looked at Mu Sicheng, "This is obviously a tactic based on sacrificing players."

Mu Sicheng was increasingly confused: "What tactics?"

"Let me explain it this way." Bai Liu picked up a piece of paper and placed it between himself and Mu Sicheng, and wrote a keyword "skill" on it.

"The first player to clear the game among each batch of new players will receive a skill, or more precisely, a skill identity."

Bai Liu raised his eyes and looked at Mu Sicheng: "For example, mine is [Poor Tramp], yours is [Capuchin Thief], and Captain Tang's is [Fading Rose Hunter]."

“Our personal skills derive from this identity, sometimes it’s one skill, sometimes it’s multiple skills.”

"This identity is mainly generated based on the player's core desires. Different players have different desires, and the generated skill identities are also different, and the derived skills are therefore very different."

"But because of this, the skills that are very high-quality, have great growth potential, and are very suitable for use in the game are not the majority. Most of the skills generated by players are either not suitable for use in the game, or have no growth potential, or have very limited use or strange use methods."

"There are very few players who possess all three qualities, which also means that once a good skill player appears, he will be strongly sought after by the big guilds."

Bai Liu looked at Mu Sicheng and said with a half-smile: "For example, the King's Guild's pursuit of you."

"Let's not talk about that." Mu Sicheng waved his hand speechlessly to interrupt Bai Liu's ridicule, "But what does this have to do with the high league death rate in Russell Cemetery?"

"It is related." Bai Liu smiled. "As a guild that is not very big, not ranked high, has no star players, and is not very powerful, Russell Cemetery has no competitive advantage when competing for new players with high-quality skills. The players that can be recruited are all players with lower skills."

"How can these inferior players win the league?" Bai Liu asked slowly.

Mu Sicheng was stunned.

"Since Russell Cemetery could not win in terms of quality, they put a lot of effort into quantity." Bai Liu lowered his eyes and wrote the word "targeted" on the paper.

Mu Sicheng rubbed the goose bumps on his arms, stretched out his hand and raised five fingers in astonishment: "But no matter how many reserve players they prepare, they can't use human wave tactics. There are only five players who can play!"

"Five newcomers, with second-rate skills, and they're playing against a top guild... Now I can understand why this guild has a high mortality rate in the league. It would be strange if they didn't die in the game." Mu Sicheng asked in confusion, "But this operation, no matter how you think about it, there's no way they can win, right?"

Wang Shun answered Mu Sicheng's question: "On the contrary, although the team competition in Russell Cemetery has a high mortality rate, the winning rate is also very high."

After saying that, Wang Shun lowered his head and clicked the panel, and a new page appeared on the PPT:

"From the data I got, we can see that in last year's mid-season tournament, excluding the singles and doubles matches that Russell Cemetery voluntarily gave up, their winning rate in the 31 team matches they actually played was as high as 93.55%, and they only lost two games."

Wang Shun continued to click: "Russell Cemetery lost two games. One was against the King's Guild, and the tactician was the Red Heart. The other was against the Deer Hunter, and the tactician was the God-defying Judge. Now it has been transferred to the killer sequence."

Mu Sicheng looked at the result and exclaimed in astonishment: "This winning rate is too outrageous!"