In the first internal battle of Group B on April 4, Nirvana used Zhu Bajie's displacement tactics to tie with the referee 1:1. On April 6, they relied on Zhuge Liang as the key card to tie with the Temple of the Gods 1:1. After two strong teams were tied by Nirvana in the regular season, Nirvana's reputation was completely affected, and it became an opponent that all the teams in Group B did not want to face.

In previous regular seasons, big clubs like Pantheon and Judge always had a net win score of 2:0 against new teams, but this season they all fell to Nirvana. Therefore, Nirvana was nicknamed "strong team harvester" by netizens.

The third game will be against Nirvana's club, Dark Night City, one of the six giants in the league.

Before the game started, the online support rate was evenly split, with more than 80% of netizens voting to predict the score of the game would be "1:1". This was in stark contrast to the initial Nirvana match when most people supported a 2:0 decision.

Nirvana fans left messages on the club's homepage to cheer everyone up: "Nirvana can tie with Judgment and Temple of the Gods, and can definitely tie with Dark City, come on!" "I hope we can get at least 1 point against Dark City!" "Believe in Uncle Fat, look forward to new scenes and tactics!"

Xie Mingzhe did not pay attention to the online comments. He spent the whole day on the 7th at the club concentrating on practicing cooperation with his teammates. On the evening of the 7th, there was Chen Xiao's individual competition, and he also followed Chen Xiao to watch the whole process.

In the first round of the individual competition, Chen Xiao encountered weak opponents and did not run into any great players. He easily won 10 games in a row and advanced. The next round will be played in a week, so he can concentrate on preparing for the team competition.

Chen Xiao cooperated with Xie Mingzhe's tactics and practiced the tactical card "Guanyin, the Goddess of Childbirth" with his teammates. They also found the best plan to copy the baby, waiting to give the Dark Night City a surprise.

On the evening of April 8, the third day of the regular season team competition officially began.

The first game is a match between two second-tier teams in Group A, and the second game is between Nirvana and Dark Night City.

Since the first match didn't end at a fixed time, in order to prevent them from finishing early, the players of the Nirvana team arrived at the scene early to wait. Xie Mingzhe happened to meet Ye Zhu in the bathroom. Ye Zhu was obviously in a trance and was not concentrating when walking. She almost bumped into his arms. Xie Mingzhe immediately braked and stopped, smiling and said, "Hello, Master Zhu."

Ye Zhu looked up blankly when he heard the strange name. When he saw Xie Mingzhe, his face immediately changed: "It's you!" Xie Mingzhe snatched away several butterflies in the individual competition, and Ye Zhu's mentality collapsed. He got angry when he saw this guy. Ye Zhu took a deep breath and raised his eyebrows and said: "The mental attack of Zhu Bajie card will not always be effective. Do you think that if I made a mistake in the individual competition, I will also make a mistake in the team competition? Impossible."

Xie Mingzhe smiled and said, "I know that if you use the same trick too many times, it will definitely not work."

Compared to his calmness, I seem to be very impulsive? I am a "senior" player who debuted three seasons earlier than him. Thinking of this, Ye Zhu couldn't help blushing and immediately turned around and ran away in shame.

Xie Mingzhe thinks Xiao Yezhu is quite cute. He is too young and thinks in a simple way. Even though he has played in the league for three years, his mind has not been polluted by the bad intentions of the big names in the major clubs.

So when we fight the Dark Night City later, we can look for a breakthrough from Ye Zhu.

You have to pick the softest persimmons to squeeze. If you can't beat Captain Pei, it's a good choice to hit the little bamboo first, Xie Mingzhe thought with a smile.

The episode of meeting Xie Mingzhe made Ye Zhu feel a little awkward. He admired Uncle Pang very much in the beginning and thought that Uncle Pang’s character cards were very interesting. He paid attention to the "Yueban Card Store" in the game every day and even became Uncle Pang’s spokesperson. Whenever there was any movement in the card store, he would "advertise" in the group.

Later, when he met Xie Mingzhe in person and found that the fat uncle was about the same age as himself, Ye Zhu felt that his fantasy about his idol was completely shattered, so he turned from a fan to a hater. However, when Xie Mingzhe smiled and talked, he felt that Xie Mingzhe was a nice person and didn't seem that annoying?

No, we must stand firm. We must cripple, defeat, and annihilate Xie Mingzhe today!

Pei Jingshan watched Ye Zhu's expression change constantly, sometimes confused, sometimes gritting his teeth, and now full of vigor. He finally couldn't help but ask, "Are you making emoticons on the spot?"

Ye Zhu: “…………”

This made the teammates around him laugh out loud. The emoticons that Xiao Zhuzi made on the spot were really rich.

Captain Pei probably speaks in a "very upright" way because he graduated from the philosophy department. However, his sharp comments can be quite venomous at times, even more terrible than the venom of his own parasites.

Ye Zhu rubbed his face, quickly adjusted his expression, and said: "I was thinking that the tactics you arranged for Nirvana will definitely defeat them."

Pei Jingshan looked at him with a half-smile and said, "Broken? Who was the first to be defeated mentally during the individual match with Xie Mingzhe?"

Ye Zhu was so angry that he said, "That was a special case!"

Pei Jingshan chuckled and said, "You went crazy just because Zhu Bajie carried away a few butterflies. If Nirvana has more outrageous cards, I'm afraid you will explode on the spot. How about I bring a tranquilizer to you when we play the game later?"

"No need! I will adjust myself." Ye Zhu turned away with a red face, not wanting to pay any attention to him at all.

Captain Pei once again pissed off Ye Zhu, and the team members were used to it. Ye Binbin said, "Brother Pei, you pissed off Xiao Zhu like this, what if he performs poorly later?"

Pei Jingshan said meaningfully: "No, I know Xiaozhu very well. If I let him recall his past dark history, he will fight even harder. I believe that no matter what card Nirvana brings out, his mentality today will definitely not collapse."

Team members: "..."

Your method of provoking others is quite unique.

The first match of Group A ended at 7:30, and it was Group B's turn.

The game started and the referee pulled everyone into the room and started drawing lots.

Nirvana's luck in drawing lots has not been very good recently. He always draws the red side and has the priority to choose the Dark Night City map in this game.

The map submitted by Pei Jingshan is called "Valley of Poisonous Insects", a name that makes people's scalps tingle. As a new map that debuted for the first time this season, Nirvana had 5 minutes to familiarize himself with the map environment.

Xie Mingzhe and four others entered the map, and the map's scenery was played in 3D real-time on the big screen.

Many people with trypophobia in the audience collectively covered their eyes.

It's so scary! The trees and the ground around the map are crawling with tiny bugs!

These bugs are scene NPCs and will not attack both cards, but they will release poisonous fog. The full-scene poisonous fog at regular intervals can block the vision of both parties, making it easier for Ye Zhu's invisible butterfly to track and teleport in groups. Secondly, the poisonous fog also has the negative effect of "poisoning", which can be continuously stacked, causing the card to lose health every second. This is different from the poison of Pei Jingshan's bugs - the scene poisoning cannot be released.

This is clearly a fast-paced battle map.

When all the cards in Nirvana are doubly poisoned and losing a lot of blood, Pei Jingshan can seize the opportunity, grab the opponent's low-blood cards, let Ye Zhu's butterfly track them, summon his own group to teleport, quickly kill the low-blood cards, and establish an advantage in card difference.

Once Nirvana's card count decreases, Dark Night City can use this "guerrilla warfare" style of play to slowly devour the opponent's remaining cards, continuously expanding its advantage and eventually turning it into victory.

Pei Jingshan's strategy was indeed brilliant, and the choice of map was very consistent with the tactics of the Dark Night City.

This map is extremely unfriendly to people with trypophobia. Xie Mingzhe didn't feel anything about the bugs, Chen Xiao just frowned, but Yu Ke was annoyed by these little things and couldn't help but curse, "How disgusting!"

Many people complained in the live broadcast room: "Pei Shen looks like a normal person, how can he be so heavy-mouthed and like bug cards?! And a map of the whole venue with bugs?" "I really can't stand it, I'm going to vomit the food I ate the night before!" "Captain Pei specializes in treating trypophobia, you guys really didn't lie to me, I'm leaving, you guys continue!" "Next time you watch the Dark Night City game, remember not to eat..." "People with trypophobia demand a full refund!"

Fortunately, Xie Mingzhe doesn't have any feelings about bugs. This scene picture is ultimately about the two negative effects of "fog" and "poisoning". Pei Jingshan will definitely use the time when the fog appears to focus fire and assassinate the key card.

After careful consideration, Xie Mingzhe decided to test the waters with Zhou Yu and Lu Xun's fire-type group attack deck. He decided not to put Huang Yueying and Zhuge Liang on the field first, so as to avoid being targeted by the opponent's instant death cards in the second round.

He sent out a lineup of fire cards including Sun Ce, Zhou Yu, Lu Meng, Lu Xun and Sun Shangxiang. Brother Chen brought five plant group attack cards, Xiao Ke brought Ox-Head and Horse-Face, Black and White Impermanence group attack cards and a single kill card of Nie Xiaoqian. The auxiliary cards brought by Qin Xuan were all magical cards - two group healing cards of Shennong and Guanyin Bodhisattva, Nuwa's resurrection, Fuxi's group control and Pangu's truce.

I didn't bring Xue Baochai in the first round because I wanted to see which butterfly cards Ye Zhu would play today and then make adjustments in the second round.

As a result, group attack cards account for nearly three-quarters of Nirvana's deck.

But in fact, Chen Xiao's plant group attack cards are very flexible to use. For example, Black Mage, Black Rose, and Vampire Vine can be switched between single and group attacks at will. If the group attack damage is not enough, Chen Xiao will open a group attack; if you need to kill the opponent's low-health cards in seconds, you can switch to single attack. The deck arranged by Xie Mingzhe is still very reasonable in terms of attack mode - it is not a pure group attack lineup, but also has the ability to kill a single target while attacking a group.

In the private room, Tang Muzhou saw this and couldn't help but ask, "Is this the deck he arranged himself?"

Chen Qianlin nodded calmly: "He wants to try to arrange the formation himself, so I let him practice."

Tang Muzhou looked at the calm young man on the big screen, his eyes full of admiration: "Junior brother is indeed very talented. Master is right to let him practice more. He needs to learn to make his own decisions. You can't arrange everything for every game. If you do that, he will be in a mess when it comes to the on-site lineup in the playoffs. The conductor should learn to deal with emergencies independently as soon as possible."

Chen Qianlin turned around and looked at his eldest disciple: "You seem to care about him?"

Tang Muzhou pretended to smile calmly and said, "Isn't it normal for me to care about my junior brother? I also care about my master. I was afraid that you would be discovered by the reporters, so I found this secluded private room for you. There will be no reporters to disturb you at all."

Chen Qianlin didn't say much, just looked at the screen and said, "This game will be difficult."

In addition to Pei Jingshan's insect card and Ye Zhu's butterfly card, the Dark Night City's deck also includes Ye Binbin's spell cards. The characteristics of spell cards are lightness, flexibility, high sensitivity and high speed, single-target immobilization spells with very short cooldown, group control, and group negative status spells, which can cooperate with teammates to play at a very fast speed to gain advantages.

In addition, the large number of control insect cards controlled by supporting player Lin Quan is also a huge threat to Nirvana.

Ye Zhu was a little surprised when he saw Nirvana's deck: "They didn't use Zhu Bajie this time, but sent out the Fire Team. Are they going to rely on Zhou Yu's Iron Chain to burn the whole field?"

Pei Jingshan said calmly: "Their idea is not bad. Everyone please pay attention to your positioning later."

At the beginning of the game, all cards in Dark Night City kept a distance of 30 meters from Nirvana and dispersed everywhere to avoid being connected by Zhou Yu's iron chain. Pei Jingshan's attack card directly split into four small insects moving in different directions, and Ye Zhu quickly sent out an invisible tracking butterfly to follow Zhou Yu.

Kill Zhou Yu first, then kill Lu Xun.

This is the consensus among players of Dark Night City - it is always right to kill Xie Mingzhe's card first in a team fight.

Ye Zhu's tracking butterfly was extremely fast and silently caught up with Zhou Yu. Just then, the scene effect was triggered and the surrounding poisonous insects released a large green mist. The players' vision was affected by the mist. At the same time, all the cards in the scene were poisoned!

Pei Jingshan said: "Summon!"

Ye Zhu understood and directly activated the Tracking Butterfly's summoning skill, teleporting several core cards to his vicinity.

The summoning skill of Jade Butterfly is equivalent to instant mass teleportation. The audience from a bird's eye view saw that in the thick fog, a large number of butterflies, insects and talismans suddenly appeared behind Zhou Yu. The scene was so bizarre that many of the audience could not help but close their eyes.

Being bitten to death by a large number of insects is a scene so tragic that I dare not watch it.

However, when everyone opened their eyes, they found that Zhou Yu was not dead, he was still alive and well, and he activated the Iron Chain skill to connect all the insects, butterflies and talisman cards flying around.

Wu Yue immediately explained: "It was Fuxi's group chaos! Nirvana's prediction was very accurate, and he used the anti-control skill in advance to block the first wave of attack from the Dark Night City!"

Qin Xuan, who had always been unknown, calmly deployed the Fuxi Bagua Formation to create group chaos at the critical moment. The first wave of attack from the Dark Night City was forcibly blocked, and Nirvana began a full-scale counterattack.

However, Pei Jingshan was experienced in command after all, and he was able to respond quickly to this situation - he activated the group purification skill of "Moonlight Dragon" and allowed the combat effectiveness of the group of friendly forces within a range of 30 meters to soar under the cover of moonlight.

After quickly releasing the control, Pei Jingshan ordered the concentrated fire to kill Zhou Yu!

The speed at which the bugs stacked their poison was terrifying. Even though Xie Mingzhe summoned Sun Ce to taunt them in time, he was ultimately unable to hold them off for long.

Sun Ce was the first to be killed in battle, and Zhou Yu was the second to be killed in battle.

On the other hand, in the Dark Night City, due to the existence of the special insect card "Moonlight Dragon", and the attack bonus obtained after Ye Zhu's invisible butterfly tracks the target, the poisonous insects and butterflies flying in the air look very small in size, but their attack power is extremely amazing!

Xie Mingzhe was a little surprised - Captain Pei was going to fight him head-on and quickly defeat his core card?

The map scene was filled with poisonous fog again. As a fast-paced battle map, the poisonous fog accumulated very quickly. Xie Mingzhe had no choice but to let Qin Xuan summon Shennong and Guanyin Bodhisattva to attack at the same time to recover health...

At this moment, Xie Mingzhe suddenly heard a buzzing sound in his ears.

Just as he was wondering, he saw a large swarm of bees suddenly flying towards them in the thick fog not far away!

Xie Mingzhe thought to himself that something was wrong, but it was too late to retreat.

——Queen Bee!

Pei Jingshan’s trump card, and it is a new card that has never appeared in previous competitions!

Everyone knows that Captain Pei likes bugs, and he made various bugs into poison attack cards. Bees are not insects, but they are insects, and the cards designed with them also have characteristics such as high agility and high movement speed. Therefore, Pei Jingshan added this new card to his deck, and the style of painting is still very unified.

His card is called "Queen Bee", which can summon a swarm of bees. A large area of ​​bees will suddenly attack, stinging people all over the head. What's more disgusting is that the swarm's attack also comes with a negative state - the target stung by the bees will have pus swelled up at the wound, and the healing effect will be reduced by 50%.

At this moment, all the character cards, joker cards, and plant cards present in Nirvana were stung by the swarm of bees, which was equivalent to group reduction treatment.

The poison fog scene will cause a large amount of health loss per second. Reducing the healing by half will greatly reduce the effectiveness of Nirvana's healing.

If this continues, Nirvana will not last long.

Xie Mingzhe had Nuwa revive Sun Ce, allowing Sun Ce to withstand a wave of damage with a range taunt, but this was still a drop in the bucket. The opponent's insect card must be killed as soon as possible, otherwise, Ye Zhu's "Green Butterfly" healing amount is in stacking mode, and friendly troops within the range will automatically stack healing buffs higher and higher. The cards of the Dark Night City are not afraid of losing blood at all, but Nirvana will fall into an increasingly unfavorable situation.

Thinking of this, Xie Mingzhe gritted his teeth and said, "Start a group attack, a strong attack!"

For a moment, both sides used their skills to bombard each other, and a large number of the insects that were split in the Dark Night City were killed, but most of the cards on Nirvana's side were also killed or injured. The number of remaining cards on both sides was roughly estimated to be around 10:8, and their health was very low.

At this moment, Xie Mingzhe saw a huge purple spider appear in his sight.

Captain Pei’s cards are all small in size, but this card is very large - it is called "Spider Queen".

As soon as she appeared, she immediately began to devour the other bloody little insects frantically.

Xie Mingzhe was simply stunned!

He had heard of a method of raising snakes, which was to put a large number of poisonous insects such as poisonous snakes, scorpions, and poisonous spiders together and let them bite each other. The one that survived would become the "king of snakes."

Could it be that Captain Pei wants to raise pigs on the spot?

It turns out that Pei Shen really wants to raise pigs on the spot.

Every time the Spider Queen devoured a small insect, her size would grow a little bigger. After she had eaten all the bloody insects in succession, she turned into a 3-meter-tall monster, and the only one left in the scene was the King of Insects!

Immediately afterwards, the poisonous Spider-Snake King released a crowd control skill: dense spider web.

A huge spider web dropped from the sky and trapped Nirvana's cards in place, making all the cards unable to move. At the same time, she spewed out spider silk from her mouth, which was filled with a lot of venom, and it would kill any card with low health almost instantly!

Xie Mingzhe: “…………”

This is even scarier than Gui Sirui's corpse-eating ghost.

After finally destroying all the opponent's insect cards, the poisonous spider suddenly appeared and ate up all the low-health teammates, becoming the only "King of Snakes" with explosive attack power in the field. The Spider Queen is obviously also a card for the late stage. Pei Shen's tactic of "raising snakes on the spot" is too good, and Xie Mingzhe admires it from the bottom of his heart.

The sudden appearance of such a Boss Card really caught the Nirvana Team off guard.

The first game collapsed quickly and the audience was stunned.

Even fans of the Dark Night City Club were confused: "The Queen Bee and Spider Queen that Pei Shen brought out today, are they new cards?" "I've never seen him use them in previous competitions, but he brought out these cards in the regular season against Nirvana. Is it necessary?!" "The Spider Queen is so awesome, she's going crazy and eating teammates!" "Pei Shen showed me how to raise a Boar King, and my claustrophobia has been cured by him again..."

Asking Pei Jingshan to take out the newly made powerful cards also indirectly reflects his importance to Xie Mingzhe.

In the private room, Tang Muzhou helplessly rubbed his forehead: "Xiao Pei is a bit exaggerated. This kind of card is not too much to put in the playoffs." He understands this good friend, and he also knows that Pei Jingshan has always been cautious. This time he took out the Queen Bee and the Spider Queen to specifically fight Nirvana. It can be seen that he is determined to end Nirvana's title of "strong team harvester."

Chen Qianlin said calmly: "Xiao Pei is quite thoughtful. Yang Zhu's tactics are very difficult to crack. If we use group attack skills to quickly reduce the health of the insect card, he can release the Spider Queen to eat his low-health teammates and transform into the Dragon King. This will actually help him."

"Yes, this is difficult to deal with." Tang Muzhou chuckled and said, "I am looking forward to how Junior Brother will handle this situation."