On the day of the preseason game, explosive news spread in the game that a team had won 41 games in a row but had not played a single official game.

You can hear people talking about this everywhere. Even the audience in the big pool of the mid-season game couldn't help but talk about it while watching the game.

"This is too outrageous." Some spectators were shocked. "What kind of luck did the people who drew this team have?"

An audience member nearby gave him some information: "He is a newcomer with a luck value of 100."

The audience was shocked: "Luck value is 100?! Why didn't the big guild recruit this newcomer?!"

The audience shook their heads: "It's useless for the big guilds. In the mid-season tournament, every team has to compete. It's not random. There is no such thing as a team draw."

"And in the playoffs, do you think luck can play any role in the Shura situation in the playoffs?"

The audience smacked their lips and said, "That's true, but this luck value is really useful in the preseason."

"It's useless to rely on luck alone." The audience next to him curled his lips. "This team gives me the feeling that they just want to cheat and beat the garbage team. They just muddle through in the preseason and get by as long as they can."

"After they have eliminated all the rubbish teams in the later stages, they will still have to face strong teams, and then they will be defeated."

The audience hesitated and said, "But I think they are pretty good. I want to place a bet."

The audience commented contemptuously: "I don't think this is a wandering circus. I won't bet on this team easily."

"It's better to bet on a big guild than on this team." The audience raised their heads and watched the team battle on the big screen enthusiastically. "This is the top bloody game battle."

The ugly little mask on the screen was covered in blood. He laughed wildly, raised his green sniper rifle, pointed it at the person opposite him, and pulled the trigger.

[System prompt: Congratulations to player Daniel for winning the single-player competition. The Deer Hunter Guild earns one point.]

The entire viewing pool was silent for two seconds. The next moment, deafening cheers almost overturned the TV screen.

"Little Ugly——!"

"Little Ugly——!"

Daniel, covered in blood, logged out from the TV screen. Blood dripped down his body. The paper mask shell had been softened by the blood, so he took it off without much care and threw it aside.

Then Daniel suddenly stopped, turned around, put on a fake smile that was perfect to the point of hypocrisy, bowed politely to everyone, and then took off his hat and waved:

"I am Xiao Chou, please remember to support me."

His apple-green eyes curved with a smile: "Otherwise, the dead man on TV will be your fate."

Daniel's opponent on TV was lying in a pool of blood with his eyes open. The pain of his destroyed soul made his face distorted before his death, and his body was full of bullet holes from gunshot wounds.

He was tortured to death by Daniel.

After that, Daniel didn't care how the audience cheered and waved his hand nonchalantly: "Ciao~ (Goodbye in Italian)"

Then he walked off the stage.

The audience member who had been talking about Bai Liu swallowed and said, "It feels... so scary, Xiao Chou. I still prefer a gentler way of playing games, such as the lottery style of Bai Liu from the wandering circus. I think it's very interesting."

"What do you know!" The spectator next to him was very excited and retorted impatiently, "This is the kind of killing that is needed. It's bloody and fun to watch! No matter how scary Xiao Chou is, he can't hit you! It's so fun to watch him kill others!"

"Bai Liu is just an opportunistic coward." The audience commented with disgust, "Cowardly behavior will sooner or later kill him at the hands of a strong man. I hate this kind of person the most. When he dies, I will bet on his opponent."

Daniel, who was walking down covered in blood, suddenly stopped. He turned his head sharply and jumped in front of the audience who had just commented on Bai Liu at a speed invisible to the naked eye.

Daniel pulled out his green sniper rifle and pointed it at the audience with a brilliant smile: "I think I heard you say something bad about Bai Liu just now."

The horn-shaped opening of the sniper rifle was pressed against the spectator's head. Daniel opened his grass-green eyes and slowly lowered his body: "But I don't think I heard it clearly just now. Can you please repeat it again?"

The spectator was stunned, and he looked at the gun pointed at him with trembling body - this thing can even destroy a person's soul!

"I, I said Bai Liu was taking advantage of the situation, he is a coward, and you, you are awesome." The audience shook their hands and gave Xiao Chou a thumbs up.

The smile on Daniel's face disappeared in an instant. He looked at the audience expressionlessly: "I hate to hear people say bad things about Bai Liu."

“He’s the best.”

Daniel pulled the trigger without hesitation.

“Bang, bang, bang, bang—!”

The audience covered their heads and screamed miserably, and shrank back under their chairs in fear. When the shooting stopped, the surviving audience member vaguely realized that this was the central hall and Xiao Chou could not attack him.

But at the very first moment, Xiao Chou's strong murderous intent towards him made him feel that he was really going to be killed.

Daniel looked at the sniper rifle with annoyance as it could not hit the spectator: "I forgot that you can't kill people in the Concourse."

The audience raised their hands and cried out at the top of their lungs, "I won't say Bai Liu anymore! I won't dare to say it again! I'm betting on Bai Liu! I'm betting all my points on him! He's the best! The best!"

Daniel shifted his gaze from the gun to the tearful face of the spectator. He smiled regretfully and shrugged: "But you're not the best."

"Want to bet on Bai Liu?" Daniel raised his gun to the face of the spectator, showing an extreme disgust on his face, "You are worthy?"

"Bai Liu doesn't need inferior believers like you."

Daniel put his hands and gun behind his back and said submissively, "Can you please play the game now and then let me kill you?"

The audience member was almost frightened and looked around helplessly, trying to find someone to help.

But the spectators around had already moved away, and no one dared to come over.

"Little Chou." The Deer Hunter's president, Cen Mingming, came up. He glanced at the audience indifferently, then looked at Daniel, "The doubles match is about to begin, don't make any more trouble."

The audience looked at Cen Mingming with tears of gratitude.

Daniel didn't take his eyes off the audience: "I'm not going to play in the doubles game, right? Then I can just get back before the team game."

"I'll come back after I kill him." Daniel turned around and looked at Cen Mingming, grinning and saying, "It will be quick."

The audience slumped to the ground in a daze.

Wang Shun looked at the others in the locker room and said, "In the early preseason, we will have an easy time because of Du Sanying."

"But this doesn't mean we should relax. You also need to pay attention to the situation in the mid-season."

Wang Shun clicked on the system panel, and the panel popped up, with the mid-season tournament round-robin schedule appearing on it.

"Unlike the preseason games, which are randomly held at multiple locations, there are only 496 games in total, 16 games per day, for a total of 31 days, which means it will take one month to complete."

"According to previous years' practice, the mid-season tournament usually ends at the same time as the pre-season tournament, or ends earlier."

Wang Shun continued to click on the panel, and a list of rankings appeared on it:

"In the mid-season, the main thing you need to focus on is the popularity ranking. Most of the popular players are concentrated in the mid-season."

"This is a table of the top 300 popular players. But please note that you need to be in the top 100 before the next league starts to get the gold medal of immunity."

Wang Shun looked at them and said, "The reason why I showed you the table of the top 300 is because two of you are in the top 300."

"Liu Jiayi, popularity ranking 267."

"Bai Liu, popularity ranking 248."

"By the way, because of Du Sanying's eye-catching card drawing performance today." Wang Shun clicked on the panel, "he received a lot of attention and his ranking rose to 351."

Du Sanying exclaimed in surprise and pointed at his nose: "Me?"

Mu Sicheng slammed the table angrily: "Damn it, Du Sanying is on the list, why not me!"

Wang Shun explained with a smile: "Mushen, you, Tang Erda and Mu Ke are ranked at the bottom because both of you are not very popular and there is no topic. Especially after entering the game pool, you seem to have disappeared."

"Many in the audience thought you were dead."

Mu Sicheng: "...I'm so sorry, I'm still alive!"

Tang Erda coughed awkwardly.

Mu Ke was quite calm. His skill and identity were that of an assassin, and it would not be a good thing if he showed off too much.

"During the league, any game will have a strong impact on the rankings." Wang Shun looked at the panel, "Today, there were big fluctuations in the rankings, in addition to Du Sanying, there were two newcomers."

"One is Armand from Golden Dawn. After an outstanding performance in a singles match, his ranking rose from 681 to 302."

Wang Shun looked at Bai Liu and said, "The other one is Xiao Chou from Deer Hunter. His ranking rose from 549 to 203 today, and then dropped to 321."

"I want to focus on this little idiot here. His rise in the rankings is due to his excellent performance in individual competitions and his brutal personal style, both of which helped him attract a lot of attention from the audience."

Wang Shun clicked on the panel, and a picture of a dead person with a distorted face appeared.

"This is what an opponent looks like when he dies at the hands of Xiao Chou. The death is very horrific."

"But these are not the main points for me to single out this little ugly player." Wang Shun's expression darkened. "Massacre of opponents is a common operation in the league. It will give the audience a strong sense of shock, so it won't cause his ranking to drop."

"This little idiot was demoted because he left the field and killed a spectator during a Deer Hunters doubles match."

Wang Shun clicked on the panel, and a photo of a player with a smashed head appeared on the panel.

"This is what he looks like when he kills a player."

"I was able to get this photo because Xiao Chou had a small TV on while playing the game, and the scene of him killing the audience was directly broadcast on the small TV, so his ranking dropped one level."

Wang Shun said nervously, "It is still unclear why he killed the spectator, but I heard that Xiao Chou used some kind of prop to force the spectator to log into the game, then he immediately logged in, and then killed the spectator to pass the level before leaving."

"After killing the enemy, Xiao Chou even managed to catch up with the Deer Hunter team match."

Wang Shun's face was solemn: "In short, you have to pay special attention to this newcomer. This is a very, very dangerous newcomer."

"Well..." Du Sanying raised his hand weakly, "This little ugly guy seems to be rising in the rankings."

Wang Shun was stunned, then suddenly turned his head to look at his table. Xiao Chou's ranking on it climbed up from 321 at an exaggerated speed and instantly climbed to more than 200.

Mu Sicheng was shocked: "Why did he get promoted again?!"

"Such a significant rise in ranking during the league must be due to the competition." Wang Shun quickly opened the forum and browsed through it. "The Deerhunters lost the doubles game, so they have to play a team game. When I counted the rankings just now, their team game had not yet ended."

"Xiao Chou's rising ranking now can only mean one thing."

Bai Liu said calmly, "He won again, didn't he?"

Wang Shun took a deep breath and said, "Yes, not only that, Xiao Chou should still be the MVP of this team competition, otherwise the ranking would not have rebounded so strongly."

Mu Sicheng stared at Wang Shun's popularity ranking table for a while, then patted Bai Liu's shoulder hesitantly: "Bai Liu, am I seeing things..."

"Your ranking seems to be rising along with this little idiot?"

MSI Observation Pool.

[System prompt: Deer Hunter Guild won the team competition and scored 8 points]

[System prompt: The Deer Hunter Guild won one single match and one team match in this round, with a total of 9 points]

The news of victory always makes the audience crazy, especially when a new dark horse appears in the game.

But this time was different from the first time Daniel won the competition.

The audience looked at Xiao Chou with fear and enthusiasm, wanting to scream and cheer for this neurotic and extreme newcomer, but no one dared to make a sound.

The last spectator who was killed died not long ago, and no one dares to mess with Xiao Chou.

With such a large viewing pool, everyone welcomed this victory in silence and joy.

Ignoring the extreme desire for discussion on the faces of the audience, it felt like they were observing a moment of silence for the two players who were cruelly killed by Xiao Chou in the game.

Daniel's blood was dripping down his body. This time, as soon as he logged out, he threw off his ugly mask and walked straight down. Halfway down, he suddenly stopped and turned to look at the audience.

The audience leaned back subconsciously and swallowed nervously.

...So scary.

Daniel suddenly smiled and waved his hand like a naive adolescent greeting his neighbor:

"I had a hard time playing today. Please remember to support me and place a bet on me. Thank you."

"Oh, by the way." Daniel smiled innocently, his apple-green eyes full of light, "People who dislike Bai Liu don't have to support me."

"Because I don't need the support of the dead, I will kill you all."

Daniel waved his hand casually, blew a halfhearted kiss with two fingers, turned and walked away: "Ciao (Goodbye)~"