During the three-day break from the 9th to the 11th, the players of the Nirvana team recuperated and, in addition to practicing the new map "Three-Part World", they also practiced other decks and tactics in case of emergency.

On April 12, Nirvana encountered the Star Troopers during the civil war of Group B.

As the two seeded teams in Group B that were equally favored by reporters and netizens, the confrontation between the two naturally attracted a lot of attention.

Although the attendance at the match was not as high as the three previous matches against powerful teams, it was still over 70%. The fact that the two new teams had so many spectators attending the match was enough to prove the strength and popularity of the two teams.

Xie Mingzhe met the captain of the Star Rangers, Bai Xu, in the backstage.

The last time I watched the game, I had a quick glance and didn't see what he looked like clearly. This time, when I got close to him, I found that this rich second-generation guy has very fair skin, golden curly hair, a bit like a teddy bear's curly hair, tall and thin. Although not particularly handsome, his looks would at least score 80 points. Coupled with his rich second-generation personality, it's no wonder he has so many fans.

When Bai Xu saw Xie Mingzhe, he smiled and said, "Hey, isn't this Uncle Fatty? What surprise have you prepared for us today?"

The two words "Fat Uncle" were deliberately emphasized, with obvious sarcasm.

As new teams formed this season, Nirvana and Starry Sky have been compared recently, but Bai Xu is actually not convinced in his heart, and always feels that Nirvana's character card is to win favor from the crowd. Their Starry Sky team also tied with the Temple of the Gods 1:1, and next, they will also tie with the Judgement and Dark Night City, so which team in Group B will qualify, no one can say until the last minute.

Xie Mingzhe knew that he was dissatisfied with Nirvana, and it was not good to openly draw hatred, so he smiled and said politely: "There is indeed a surprise, Captain Bai, you will know it later."

Bai Xu: “???”

Looking at his bright smile, I suddenly felt a chill down my spine. What was going on? What surprise was this?

***

This civil war in Group B started on time at 8 o'clock in the evening.

Commentator Wu Yue said: "Nirvana and Starry Sky are both newly established teams, but both teams are currently performing very well. Nirvana has tied with top teams 1:1 in three consecutive games, and Starry Sky also tied with Temple of the Gods 1:1 in a match two days ago. Many people on the Internet are saying that the qualifying situation of Group B is becoming more and more confusing, and both teams have the strength to compete for a place in the playoffs!"

Liu Chen said: "If the match ends in a 1:1 tie, the competition between the two teams will be even more intense. But if one team wins 2:0, the gap will be widened by 2 points, and the winning team will have an easier time, at least in terms of the ranking within Group B, because if the points of both teams are equal in the end, it will all depend on the results of the regular season battle."

For example, after the regular season, Nirvana and Starry Sky both have 26 points, but Nirvana beats Starry Sky in the internal war stage, so Nirvana will be ranked above Starry Sky. This rule was explained in detail to all major clubs before the league started. Therefore, every game in the group stage is crucial. Who knows if there will be a tie in the end? Isn't it unfair to fall behind in the rankings because of losing to the opponent in the group stage?

Wu Yue said: "I believe that Nirvana and Xingkong both know the key to the group match results. I think both sides should be fully prepared today! Let's enter the game and start the draw... We see that Nirvana finally drew a blue color!"

In the previous three games, Xie Mingzhe had a bad hand and drew the red side every time. In the second game, he chose the map.

The disadvantage of the second player is that once the opponent defeats them in the first round, the players' mentality is likely to be affected, and they may not be able to adjust in the second round. However, the second player also has an advantage, which is that they can observe the opponent's deck and tactical layout in the first round and make adjustments in the second round.

Fortunately, the psychological qualities of the four members of Nirvana were all good. The only one who might have a problem, Yu Ke, was heartless. So even though they were under pressure from the opponent in the first game of the previous three games, Nirvana still stabilized in the second game and scored a point.

Xie Mingzhe must have had a change of luck today as he drew the blue color and the first game was at Nirvana's home court.

Xie Mingzhe quickly submitted the map - the world was divided into three parts.

As soon as the map appeared, the audience screamed again, and the bullet screen in the live broadcast room was full of comments: "Wei, Shu, and Wu, three areas are forcibly divided, this is too shameless!" "In order to ensure the balance of the map, the maximum number of cards each camp can accommodate is also stipulated!" "One side is Shu 7, Wu 5, Wei 8, and the other side is Shu 8, Wu 5, Wei 7. In other words, Wu is always balanced in 5v5, and Shu and Wei are both strong camps?"

The audience who were not good at math were confused.

Wu Yue said: "The forced division of the formation will greatly undermine the team battle system that requires a high degree of card coordination. It seems that Nirvana came prepared today. The Star Team's spatial division strategy is most afraid of being counter-divided by the opponent!"

You want to use the cosmic wormhole to suck away our cards and quickly concentrate fire to kill them instantly. As a result, the battlefield is divided in this way. At most, you can establish an advantage in one camp, and the other two camps will be our world.

The map of dividing the world into three parts is indeed extremely exquisite. It may not be very effective against teams like Judgment, Fenghua, and Guiyu who are strong in individual combat, but when it comes to the Star Rangers, it really pinches the opponent's soft spot.

Tang Muzhou, who was watching the game, couldn't help but ask, "Could it be that he changed the map temporarily again?"

Chen Qianlin said: "Not this time. When he was analyzing the tactics before the game, he thought of the tit-for-tat strategy."

Tang Muzhou's eyes showed a kind of satisfaction that "a junior fellow has grown up": "Not bad, it seems that his tactical awareness has been improving."

Bai Xu was a little confused when he saw the map - how could there be such an unreasonable map? Dividing 20 cards into three territories?

There has never been a map in the entire league that forcibly divides the battlefield, and the competition maps are all submitted before the start of the season. In other words, when Nirvana submitted this map, he did not know that their Star Team would use the space-division style of play. This is completely a blind cat catching a dead rat!

Bai Xu was very unconvinced, but there was nothing he could do. He had never expected that Nirvana would target them in this way, and he could not think of a strategy to crack it for a while. He could only bite the bullet and continue to send out the deck he usually practiced.

At the start of the game, Starry Sky must summon cards according to the restrictions of 8 cards for Shu territory, 5 cards for Wu territory, and 7 cards for Wei territory. The opposite is true for Nirvana, with Shu being weak and Wei being strong.

Each side has a strong camp, and the Wu Kingdom is a balanced camp.

Compared to Nirvana who was well prepared, Xingkong seemed a little flustered.

Nirvana placed most of Chen Xiao's attack cards and Yu Ke's joker cards in Wei's strong camp, and launched an all-out attack at the start. Relying on the 8v7 card advantage, he wiped out the Star Team's cards!

For the Wu camp, Nirvana arranged some thick-skinned and durable defense cards and an output card. For the weak Shu camp, he arranged highly flexible cards, such as Ma Chao, Zhao Yun, Guan Yu, Zhang Fei, Huang Zhong, Liu Bei, and Zhuge Liang, all controlled by Xie Mingzhe. Relying on Ma Chao's full-group acceleration and Zhuge Liang's group invisibility, the flexible and mobile deck made it difficult for the opponent to kill them instantly.

Gradually, the number of Nirvana cards completely overwhelmed the starry sky.

The map designed by Xie Mingzhe is actually a strategy of "Tian Ji's Horse Racing". We use our strongest lineup to quickly destroy your weak team, use our thick-skinned defense cards and flexible lineup to hold back your strong team, and look for opportunities to kill some cards of your strong team. In the end, our cards will naturally have an advantage in total number.

The Star Team lost the first game very unfairly. They didn't cooperate at all. After the Wei camp collapsed, the Shu camp collapsed soon after. The remaining Wu camp was full of auxiliary cards and had no ability to fight back. They were worn down by an attack card from Nirvana.

In the second round, Bai Xu frowned and submitted the map - Interstellar Cruiser.

This is their home court, he must avenge his past defeat!

This map is also very distinctive. It is a huge fleet located in the universe. The strategy of the Star Troopers is to use the cosmic wormholes that can appear everywhere to suck away Nirvana's key cards, and then use the space division strategy to quickly kill them.

The Cosmic Wormhole card can open and close the wormhole at any time between the selected starting point and the end point, allowing the card group to teleport instantly. This is more flexible than the guerrilla tactics of the Dark Night City that relies on the Jade Butterfly tracking, and can be said to be a magic card.

Space rifts can draw up to five independent spaces on the game map. However, these spaces are not completely isolated. There are portals connecting the spaces. Cards must pass through the portals to reach other spaces.

Once Star Troopers opens up a lot of space, the Star Cruiser map can become very complex.

The away team will be wandering back and forth between the five spaces, looking for their teammates who were sucked away by the cosmic wormhole. If they are lost for directions, they will get dizzy from all the wandering. How can they ask for support?

After being beaten so badly in the first game, the Star Rangers were particularly proactive in the second game.

At the beginning of the game, Bai Xu released the cosmic wormhole and forcibly sucked away Chen Xiao's most powerful plant cards, Black Rose and Black Mage, and quickly killed Chen Xiao's two plants before the opponent's support came.

In the previous few games, most teams would kill Xie Mingzhe's cards first when playing Nirvana, but often in the end, Chen Xiao's plant cards would produce explosive damage and turn the tables. Bai Xu studied for a long time and thought that killing Chen Xiao's cards first was a better choice, after all, Xie Mingzhe's cards were mostly functional cards - the real main attacker of Nirvana was actually Chen Xiao.

The Black Rose and the Black Wizard who were sucked into the wormhole died miserably, but there was nothing that could be done about it. After all, this style of play that forcibly divided the space would indeed make it difficult for the opponent to provide timely support.

But the cosmic wormhole's skill has a cooldown time limit after all. Taking advantage of this cooldown, Nirvana launched a full-scale counterattack.

The Star Troopers were well prepared and used all their defensive and healing skills to withstand this wave of counterattacks and maintain their 2-card advantage.

The battle between the two sides lasted until 7 minutes.

At this time, all of Chen Xiao's plant cards had been killed, there were only 8 cards left of the Star Troopers and only 6 cards left of Nirvana.

Xie Mingzhe calculated the skills of his teammates and said, "Prepare for the last wave!"

At the moment when the opponent's cosmic wormhole skill was about to cool down, he suddenly summoned Guanyin, the Goddess of Childbirth, and sent a baby directly to the "cosmic wormhole".

Bai Xu was about to activate the wormhole skill, but he found that his card was standing still and had no response.

A line of prompts appeared above the card's head: "The card is pregnant, unable to release skills, cannot be attacked or controlled, countdown 9/8/7..."

Bai Xu; “???”

Audience: “???”

Bai Xu was stunned for two seconds before he finally realized that he had been tricked by Xie Mingzhe!

Damn, you made my card pregnant and unable to use any skills for 9 seconds in waiting for delivery, and this is the "surprise" you gave me?

Bai Xu almost vomited blood.

Since the cosmic wormhole was pregnant and was about to give birth to a small wormhole, the Star Troopers had no way of opening a wormhole to transport the key to Nirvana. Bai Xu's back stiffened, and he immediately said, "Hurry up and open the space rift..."

But he was still too late.

Because, Guanyin, the goddess of childbirth, also sent a baby to the "space rift".

The space card also reads: "Pregnant..."

Bai Xu was about to collapse - how could she get pregnant at such a critical moment? I let you guys use your skills, and you got pregnant here!

The audience in the live broadcast room were laughing like crazy: "Xie Mingzhe, you are so clever! You made the opponent's control card pregnant at the critical moment, hahaha, it's equivalent to not being able to use any skills for 9 seconds, it's all wasted!" "After the wormhole and space gave birth to the baby, I found out, huh? Why are all my teammates dead? What should we do without attack power?" "Pregnant at the critical moment, this strategy, I give you 99 points!" "Hahaha, so wicked, Fatty is getting more and more wicked, I like your wickedness!"

Xie Mingzhe calmly made the two control cards on the opposite side pregnant at the same time.

If you are pregnant, just take maternity leave. Leave violent matters like fighting to your teammates.

The Star Team was going crazy, but there was nothing they could do. The two cards would be scrapped within the 9 seconds of pregnancy. Bai Xu sensed something was wrong and retreated immediately, but he was still a step too slow. Nirvana's well-prepared attack skill slammed down on them, killing all of his remaining cards within 9 seconds.

9 seconds later, the wormhole and space where the baby was born: "..."

All the teammates are dead.

What else can I do? I only have two auxiliary cards left, and I am desperate to face Nirvana's attack card. Even if I have a baby, what can I do if I open up ten more spaces? These two cards and their babies have no attacking ability. I can only watch myself and my baby being mercilessly killed by the opponent...

Bai Xu was so angry that he almost dropped his helmet!

The score of 2:0 on the big screen made Xie Mingzhe smile happily.

Winning away from home feels much better than winning at home. Nirvana finally won away from home, and it was a win against the Star Team, which is very likely to compete for a playoff spot. At least it will have a great advantage in the future rankings within the group.

Guanyin, the Goddess of Childbirth, this is a card that can be used flexibly.

It can enhance your own team, but it can also be used as a long-term control skill at a critical moment to destroy the opponent's key cards and make the opponent take a 9-second leave.

Who said that only our Cards can give birth to babies? Today, let the Star Troopers give birth to two too!

The author has something to say:

Xie Mingzhe: You are surprised to become a father. Isn't that surprising enough? :)

Bai Xu: ...MMP, I’m so angry that I’m crying.