Xie Mingzhe and Yu Ke lost in the second game, which was also expected by many professional players. Laymen see the excitement while experts see the tricks. Everyone knows that Xie and Yu's current overall strength is not as good as Gui Sirui and Liu Jingxu.

The reason they won the first game was that Xie Mingzhe's choice of "Flooding Xiapi" gave them the home advantage and Yan Qing's resurrection at the last minute caught their opponents off guard. The second reason was that Gui Sirui and Liu Jingxu underestimated Yu Ke's support and got the strategy wrong from the beginning.

As long as Gui Sirui and Liu Jingxu calm down and think clearly about the best way to deal with Yu Ke, it will be difficult for Xie Mingzhe to rely on his hidden cards to win by surprise. Once Yu Ke is defeated, it will be like a bucket made of two wooden boards with a huge half hole. Xie Mingzhe will have to deal with the front and back attacks of Gui Sirui and Liu Jingxu alone. Losing is inevitable and winning is almost impossible.

The third game will probably repeat the second game - many professional players think so.

Nie Yuandao and Shan Lan also came to watch the game today. They have already made it to the quarterfinals. Paying attention to other players' games is a way to know who is better. Shan Lan leaned over to Master's ear and asked softly, "Master, do you think Xie Mingzhe still has a chance of winning in the third game?"

Nie Yuandao shook his head and said, "On the surface, it seems that he has no chance of winning, but Xie Mingzhe is an unpredictable player. He might use some strange tricks in the final round. We can't jump to conclusions easily."

Shan Lan thought that the master's predictions were always very effective, but today the master did not clearly say whether Xie Mingzhe would win or lose. It was not reliable for him to rely on the master's "prophet" skills to infer the outcome.

Shan Lan said seriously: "I actually hope Xie Mingzhe can win."

Nie Yuandao frowned and looked back at him: "Why? You like Xie Mingzhe more?"

"I just hate Gui Sirui's joker style." Shan Lan complained in a low voice, "The crying sound of that ghost baby just now was too abnormal."

Shan Lan is a very simple-minded person, and his reasons for liking or disliking a player are very simple. Nie Yuandao sometimes feels that his apprentice has grown up and is a gentle and kind male god in the eyes of fans; but sometimes he feels that Xiao Lan is still the little boy next door in his memory, with a simple mind, and his eyes will be narrowed into slits when he is in a good mood.

Nie Yuandao heard him complaining about Gui Sirui in a low voice. Thinking of his pale face when he heard the ghost baby crying just now, he smiled and said, "Xiao Gui's ghost cards are indeed a bit creepy. You don't have to worry. No matter who wins or loses, our opponent in the next game will not be Gui Sirui."

The schedule for the quarterfinals has been announced. Nie Lan's next opponent is the winner of the B/G group match, Zhen Man and Shen An. Nie Yuandao is 100% confident in playing against these two players, so he is very relaxed.

A man's confident look is particularly attractive. Shanlan was infected by his master and immediately felt more confident. He thought that with his master around, the two of them would have a good chance of winning another championship this season. It was a pity that Xie Mingzhe and Yu Ke were paired together. In Shanlan's opinion, if Xie Mingzhe and Chen Xiao were paired together, the two might be able to go further and even have a chance to win a medal.

Chen Xiao was sitting next to them. Shan Lan glanced at him and found that he was chatting quietly with Chen Qianlin and Tang Muzhou. Occasionally, he could hear fragments of words such as "Azhe" and "will it work?" The three of them were obviously discussing the situation of the final round. The three of them were Xie Mingzhe's closest people, and they must be on Xie Mingzhe's side in their hearts, but the other players at the scene were not optimistic about Xie Mingzhe.

Even though Shan Lan didn't like Gui Sirui's joker cards, he had to admit that compared to Yu Ke, Gui Sirui was the real Ghost King. His skills in manipulating joker cards and his mastery of consciousness were far superior to Yu Ke's.

If Yu Ke is targeted again, what should he do in the third game?

Fans were also very worried at this time. Everyone knew rationally that it was a normal outcome for Azhe and Xiaoke to lose to Gui Liu, but emotionally they still hoped that Azhe and Xiaoke could go one step further - even if they could make it to the quarterfinals? It would be better than being eliminated in the round of 16!

But all fans can do at this time is to pray silently, hoping that the random map of the third game will be more favorable to Azhe.

The break before the deciding game was 3 minutes longer than that of a normal game. After a round of commercials, the real-time status of the players was broadcast on the big screen. Surprisingly, Xie Mingzhe looked very relaxed, as if he was not under any pressure. He took off his helmet and discussed the next strategy with Yu Ke in a chat and laughter. On the contrary, Gui Sirui and Liu Jingxu looked a little serious.

Of course, Liu Jingxu himself is a very serious research maniac. It is his personal style that he does not like to joke before the game. The serious expressions on their faces also show that they are very serious about the third game and will definitely not let Xie Mingzhe take advantage of any loopholes.

Xie Mingzhe said: "The Nine-Tailed Fox caused us a lot of trouble in the second round. Liu Jingxu may continue to bring it in the third round. Its skill cooldown time is too short. It stuns a single target every 10 seconds. Even if Meng Po forgets her skills, it can only solve the crisis once. It will still be difficult to deal with it in the future. I want to fight hard and kill it directly with the instant death card."

Yu Ke's eyes widened: "You mean, go straight to Sha Seng?"

Xie Mingzhe nodded: "Use the Demon-Subduing Staff to kill the Nine-Tailed Fox instantly. Let's get rid of this annoying single control card first."

Yu Ke thought it made sense - whatever Ah Zhe said made sense to him anyway, so he said without any hesitation: "Okay, then I'll take Sha Seng with me, and when the Nine-Tailed Fox shows up, I'll kill it instantly."

"There is one more thing." Xie Mingzhe thought for a moment and added, "Liu Jingxu will definitely keep a skill specifically for my hidden card. It is not enough to just kill the Nine-Tailed Fox. The monster cards in his hand, such as the cat girl, tiger monster, flower monster, and snake monster, all have control skills. So I must bring a control-free card to ensure that my hidden card can be played smoothly. Can you do it?"

Xie Mingzhe whispered the names of a few cards in his ear, and Yu Ke nodded vigorously: "I have practiced these cards, but..." He was not very confident. After all, he was targeted too badly, and his reaction was a few tenths of a second slower than the opponent. What if he couldn't use his skills?

"I believe you can do it." Xie Mingzhe guessed Xiao Ke's concerns and encouraged him with a smile, "Give it a try."

"Okay!" Since Ah Zhe said so, Yu Ke would of course not admit it. The worst that could happen is that he loses, and then netizens can scold him if they want to... Seeing Ah Zhe's hand stretched out to him, Yu Ke was deeply moved, and his eyes felt a little hot. He put his hand in Xie Mingzhe's palm and shook it hard, cheering each other up.

It was his greatest blessing to meet a teammate like Xie Mingzhe. After preparing for so long, how could he be willing to stop here? ! Yu Ke clenched his fists and quickly went through the new cards Xie Mingzhe had just mentioned in his mind. In this round, he must be Xie Mingzhe's strongest backing.

As the final round began, Wu Yue in the commentary room was clearly excited: "Both sides had outstanding performances in the previous two rounds. The third round will determine who will advance to the quarterfinals, while the other side will have to leave with regret! The final round is about to begin, fans present, let's cheer for the four players with enthusiastic applause!"

As soon as Wu Yue finished speaking, the venue was filled with deafening applause and screams. Many fans were so excited that their voices became hoarse. Banners and posters in the stands were also held up. Even with soundproof helmets on, the four players could still feel the enthusiasm of the venue.

The game starts and the system selection frame appears on the big screen.

In the first two rounds, each side has one home court, and in the third round, the system randomly selects the map.

To ensure fairness, the league has added a new rule this year - starting from the knockout stage, if the system needs to select a map in the final round, the system will first randomly draw three maps from the league map library. Both players can each ban one of them, and finally leave one as the final scene.

This also eliminates the influence of "luck factors" to the greatest extent. Once a map that is favorable to the opponent is randomly obtained, it can be completely disabled. Both parties can disable it, so the map left at the end must be a fair scene for both parties.

Fans stared at the big screen nervously. In the three selection frames, thumbnails of scenes from the league gallery kept jumping, faster and faster, until they suddenly stopped, and the three maps drawn by the system were enlarged on the screen.

Dream bubble, magic mirror forest, weapon chamber.

The result of this map selection can be described as a nightmare mode - all three maps are extremely difficult to play!

Wu Yue said in disbelief: "The system went too far today. It selected the most perverted representative maps of the three clubs. Dream Bubble is the home map of the Shadow Team. The colorful bubbles all over the map will not only affect the players' vision, but also cause massive damage to the entire scene when the bubbles explode every once in a while. The Magic Mirror Forest is the work of the Fenghua Club. Under the effect of the mirror image, it is difficult to distinguish between reality and illusion. The Weapon Chamber is the mechanism map of the Temple of the Gods. I just remember the sharp arrows flying everywhere in the scene and the bayonets stuck in the ground..."

Liu Chen sighed: "All three maps are difficult to play, it all depends on which one the two sides will keep."

The two sides drew lots to decide the ban order, and Gui Sirui drew the first one to ban, and he banned "Mirror Forest" without hesitation. First, Nirvana had fought a team battle with Fenghua on this map in the team competition in the first half of the year, and Xie Mingzhe was very familiar with this map; second, Tang Muzhou was Xie Mingzhe's senior brother, and playing in Fenghua's home map might help him with the buff of his senior brother.

When it was Xie Mingzhe's turn, he disabled "Dream Bubble" without much thought. This map was particularly difficult to play when playing against the Shadow Team, because the bubbles all over the map were very suitable for ambushes and assassinations. Gui Sirui and Liu Jingxu's styles happened to be good at assassinations, so of course they couldn't release a map that was beneficial to the opponent.

As a result, the last map left was - the weapons room.

The map comes from the Temple of the Gods. Xie Mingzhe and Gui Sirui did not play in this map during the regular season, but they have watched the games of the Temple of the Gods and other clubs on this map and have a general impression of it.

Leaving this picture as the final picture is fair to both parties.

Ling Jingtang, who was watching the game from the backstage, smiled slightly and whispered to his teammate Xu Hang who was sitting next to him: "The Weapon Chamber style of play requires a lot of movement, which places extremely high demands on the players' skills. The pace of the third game will probably be faster than the first two games."

——Weapons Chamber, this is a classic mechanism map produced by Ling Jingtang.

All cards enter a 100-square-meter square closed chamber filled with traps. Every 30 seconds, arrows will rain down from all directions, which cannot be avoided. All cards in the scene will be forced to take 5% of their basic health damage. Every 10 seconds, large arrays of swords will appear in random areas in the east, south, west, and north of the room. There will be a 2-second warning before they appear, which can be avoided by moving. If you fail to avoid them, the sharp bayonets will add a layer of bleeding to the hit cards, losing 1% of their health per second. When the number of stacked layers is high, the amount of bleeding will be quite terrible.

The random knife array that occurs every 10 seconds means that players must constantly observe the map and adjust their positions quickly. A large number of card movements will speed up the battle rhythm in the weapon room. This is also ranked in the top ten fast-paced maps in the entire alliance. If you don’t bring a healing card to resist the damage, and accidentally get hit by the knife array when you are controlled by the opponent, it would be a tragedy.

This random map was beyond Xie Mingzhe's expectations, but no matter what map it was, his deck could play it because he kept a few changeable cards to adjust at any time. If he encountered a weapon room, the worst that could happen was that he would bring an extra healing card.

The healing systems of Wei Zheng and Du Liniang are slow, but Du Liniang's group healing ability is very strong. Combined with Wei Zheng's reward and punishment system, the reward can give the team an extra group healing, and the punishment can make the opponent's designated cards immune to healing. It will be very useful in this game.

Since the Wei Zheng and Du Liniang system was targeted in the second round, Xie Mingzhe asked Xiao Ke to bring an extra treatment card, Hua Tuo, in this round.

Hua Tuo is the one with the best first aid ability among all the individual treatment cards that Xie Mingzhe has ever made. In addition, with the existence of the "Five Animal Exercises" defensive skill, it is not so easy for Gui Sirui and Liu Jingxu to kill Hua Tuo by force.

A double-healer lineup, if you kill one of mine, I still have another one. We can heal each other when necessary, making it difficult for you to kill one of them quickly. This is the idea that Xie Mingzhe had decided on a long time ago.

Another card he brought was Painted Skin, which can copy the opponent's cards, and then copy a key control card to relieve the pressure on our control. Copying output cards can also make up for the lack of output, which is very flexible.

30 seconds after the map is released, both decks will be released at the same time.

The audience unexpectedly discovered that among Xie Yu's 8 open cards, except for the familiar Wei Zheng and Du Liniang group plus system, all other cards have been replaced - Painted Skin and Hua Tuo are cards that have been seen before, and the other four character cards are all water cards.

Wang Xifeng, Jia Tanchun, Qin Keqing, and Li Wan.

The long-lost Red Building deck reappeared, giving everyone the illusion of returning to the team competition in the first half of the year.

The three commentators were also stunned and could not follow Xie Mingzhe's train of thought for a moment.

Su Yang was the first to react, and quickly analyzed the pros and cons of this deck: "Everyone is very impressed by Wang Xifeng, the hahahaha laughter is a group attack, Jia Tanchun is a single assassin card, Qin Keqing is a deathrattle card, Li Wan is a group control immunity and group control release auxiliary card - is this because she is afraid of being controlled in the second game? It is also reasonable for Xie Mingzhe to bring Li Wan to avoid control directly! Du Liniang and Hua Tuo's double blood-adding system, Wei Zheng's reward and punishment system can ensure the team's continuation."

Liu Chen said: "But this deck also has a very obvious flaw - too little output. At present, only Wang Xifeng and Jia Tanchun have output. Qin Keqing can only force cards with health below 30% to hang. It can be regarded as a functional output. It is very likely that the firepower is not enough to kill the opponent?"

Wu Yue said: "This deck has strong defensive capabilities, but weak output capabilities. Perhaps, he wants to rely on the rain of arrows and sword arrays on the scene to make up for the lack of output? But the scene map is random, and before the game, we could not expect the system to select such a blood-losing map. I think it is impossible to change the deck temporarily. What exactly is Xie Mingzhe thinking?"

Tang Muzhou was also very curious about what Xie Mingzhe was thinking, and asked his master: "His Wang Xifeng system has long been studied thoroughly by the players. Would it be too risky to use it? Is he going to bring Qiaojie to revive Wang Xifeng as a hidden card?"

Chen Qianlin's voice was very calm: "There is actually another card in this deck that your junior brother has never used. You will know it later."

After his master said this, Tang Muzhou became even more curious and looked at the screen thoughtfully.

Gui Sirui and Liu Jingxu's decks were soon revealed. The combination of Zombie Bride + Ghost Baby performed very well in the last game, so there was no reason not to bring it this time. Skeleton Generals would be very useful in the "Weapon Chamber" map, summoning skeleton soldiers to surround and kill the opponent, and they could continue to summon them even if the skeleton soldiers were shot to death by sharp arrows. He replaced another output card with Hanged Man, which has a long-range attack and is more convenient for adjusting the position.

Liu Jingxu's cards did not change much, the flower demon, tiger demon, snake demon, and nine-tailed fox still appeared, mainly because he and Gui Sirui cooperated well with this system, and it was also very easy to play against Yu Ke, so there was no need to change the lineup temporarily.

The hidden cards of both parties are not clear yet. Judging from the open cards, Xie Mingzhe and Yu Ke have a deck with two healing cards and strong survivability. Gui Liu still focuses on control + burst, with only one healing card, Flower Fairy. The audience is not optimistic about Xie Mingzhe. After all, in the second game, Gui Sirui and Liu Jingxu cooperated with one set to kill Wei Zheng and Du Liniang in seconds. If this game happens again, won’t Xiao Ke explode?

Many viewers in the live broadcast room were scrolling the screen——

"Do you have to be so stubborn? Wei Zheng and Du Liniang won three games in a row?"

"I think that Xiao Ke can only master a few auxiliary cards in a short period of time. We can't expect him to master all the auxiliary cards like Qin Xuan, right? The fact that he won three games in a row can only mean that he is most proficient in using these two cards."

"They were targeted so badly in the second game, and you still call this skilled? I think this is the end of them. There is no way they can make it to the quarterfinals."

"Maybe Azhe has other ways to deal with it, don't jump to conclusions!"

"This deck is simply hilarious. Three damage cards, and Qin Keqing's damage is a deathrattle damage card? The opponent is focusing on your damage cards. How long can you hold out with support?"

The live broadcast room was always full of arguments. Fans who liked Xie Mingzhe wanted to speak up for him, and of course there were many more people who felt that his strength could only reach the round of 16. Only Chen Xiao and Chen Qianlin, who were watching the game in the backstage, looked indifferent and their eyes were particularly calm.

Because they believe that Xie Mingzhe is a player who can create miracles.