In the match between Chen Xiao and Zheng Feng, few spectators were optimistic about Chen Xiao before the game.

But professional players will consider the problem more comprehensively. Zheng Feng has played for ten years. Although he has a lot of experience in major tournaments and a sophisticated style of play, he is over 30 years old after all, and his reaction speed is definitely not as fast as that of young players. Chen Xiao lacks major tournament experience, but he has more impetus, and his playing style will be more innovative. In addition, Chen Qianlin, the tactical master, is guiding him behind the scenes, so it is hard to say who will win or lose in this game.

At that time, no one knew that Chen Xiao was left alone by his brother during the group stage, and they thought that Chen Qianlin had been helping him behind the scenes. If they knew that Chen Xiao had defeated Zhen Man and Qiao Xi in a one-on-one duel, perhaps they would have given Chen Xiao a few more potential points when evaluating him.

The competition officially begins.

In the first game, Zheng Feng was at home and chose the "Desert" map that was commonly used by Ghost Hell.

The desert map is very suitable for earth-based cards. Lao Zheng has a deck with abnormal defensive capabilities, including a white elephant with 200,000 health points, a stone giant that can rebound damage, and giant lizards. The colors of these animals almost blend in with the sand in the background.

Lao Zheng used the earth cards to fight a war of attrition. Chen Xiao's plant cards found it difficult to find a breakthrough and he lost the game in less than seven minutes.

Voices of regret rang out from the audience, and Nirvana's fans were almost crying.

Su Yang joked, "I remember during the group stage, Chen Xiao twice came back from behind in the first game and won. I wonder if he can perform such a miracle again today against Zheng Feng, a senior player?"

Trailing 0:1, it was really difficult to win two games in a row and defeat the opponent, especially when the opponent was Zheng.

But Chen Xiao on the stage was extremely calm at this moment.

The biggest gain he gained from coming back from falling behind twice in a row in the group stage was that no matter how disadvantaged he was at the start, he could quickly stabilize his mentality and play every game as if it were the first one. He didn't think too much and focused on the present - that's how he defeated Zhen Man and Qiao Xi.

Today, he was also trailing 0:1. If he lost another round, he would be finished. However, he did not think about that. He treated the second round as a brand new beginning. He used the deck that his brother helped him pick and the map that he was best at to show his true level.

Come on, Chen Xiao!

Chen Xiao took a deep breath to cheer himself up and pressed the ready button.

In the second round, the map selected by Chen Xiao surprised all the audience -

A pipe dream.

He actually picked an assassination map that was notoriously difficult to beat in the Alliance!

In the knockout stage, there is no requirement to choose your own club's home map. You can also choose someone else's map. As long as it is a map entered into the league database, you can choose it freely.

Dream Bubbles comes from Shao Mengchen, a female player from Shadow Club. The colorful bubbles all over the map explode at regular intervals, causing massive damage. The pace is extremely fast and you can't stand it without a healing card.

But Chen Xiao did not bring any healing cards.

He just wants a quick victory!

Bring healing to delay the game to the late stage, and maybe he can compete with earth-type cards against water-type cards in the late stage. But his fragile plant cards and Lao Zheng's stones will delay the game to the late stage, which is simply seeking death. It is better to do as his brother said - bet your life and fight this wave!

In a 7v7 individual match with a high number of cards, as long as he can kill Zheng Feng's key cards in one wave, he will have a chance of winning.

Chen Xiao kept his sharp eyes on the field, adjusting his position to deal with Lao Zheng's stone cards.

Just as the first wave of bubbles was about to burst, he suddenly took action—

Snapdragon, petals are in full bloom, and the petals that look like a skull fish head emit a terrifying aura of death, and a group of people in a 30-meter range are under control of fear. Then, the petals wither, and a group of Snapdragons in a 30-meter range attack!

This combo is placed at just the right time, and can be said to be seamless.

But Zheng Feng was no fool, he had already guessed that Chen Xiao was going to attack, so the moment the bubble burst he immediately opened the stone wall - all damage that hit the stone wall would be rebounded!

Seeing that the group attack of snapdragon was rebounded by the stone wall, Lao Zheng's earth cards were safe and sound, but Chen Xiao's plant cards lost health, the audience sighed in the live broadcast room: "Chen Xiao is still too naive!" "Lao Zheng's anti-injury skills are still there, he shouldn't have used group attacks so easily, now he has lost all his health, how can he fight?" "And Chen Xiao didn't bring any healing cards, it seems that he is too radical."

At the moment when the audience was flooding the screen with messages expressing their regret for Chen Xiao, Su Yang discovered something was wrong——

"Wait, Chen Xiao only brought Snapdragon, a group attack. Is he going to attack again?"

The next moment Chen Xiao gave everyone the answer.

In 7v7 mode, he brought five single output cards!

The purpose of Snapdragon's group attack is to trick Lao Zheng's "Stone Wall" skill. This is a hard-line strategy of "trading blood for skills". As long as the rebound of the stone wall is gone, he can kill Lao Zheng's output cards without restraint.

The new card "Black Parrot" appeared, and pure black tulips bloomed on the field. The saw-like petals on the edge spun madly like gears, and in a blink of an eye, it surrounded Zheng Feng's main output card Stone Lion - the output mechanism of this card is very uniquely designed. Every time it cuts the opponent, a layer of bleeding will be added and the opponent's defense will be reduced by 10%.

Black Parrot is a plant-based card. The saw-like petals cut the Stone Lion continuously, causing 5 layers of bleeding in a blink of an eye, and the defense was also reduced by 50%.

Followed closely by a secret midnight appearance.

The densely packed and overlapping black petals piled together look like mulberries that have been magnified dozens of times. It is truly worthy of being called a "dark plant" and it makes people feel creepy just by looking at it!

The attack mode of Midnight Secret made the audience terrified——

All the petals suddenly flew into the air and swarmed towards the stone lion like a swarm of bees, instantly surrounding the stone lion tightly. Cards wrapped like "dumplings" by the black petals would lose their ability to move and suffer continuous high amounts of wood damage!

The Stone Lion's defense was already reduced by 50%, and then it was hit by Midnight Secret's ultimate move and died instantly.

——What secrets does the black flower that blooms at midnight hold?

- I heard that when it kills an opponent, it will become even crazier, its black petals will be stained with blood, and it will excitedly look for its next target, devouring all enemies one by one.

The skill design of Midnight Secret is based on the principle of this "harvest card". After killing the target, it will immediately become "bloodthirsty" and absorb 10% of the target's health and 10% of its attack power for itself. Even if it loses a lot of blood due to the bursting of the scene bubble, the moment it kills the stone lion, it has already returned to a full blood state.

Immediately afterwards, the black parrot's saw teeth stretched out towards the stone statue next to it, and Midnight Secret followed closely behind. The two cards worked together, one used sawtooth petals to cut the opponent to reduce the defense, and the other used dense petals to wrap the opponent to cause heavy damage. The stone statue was instantly beaten to a pulp!

At this time, the fear effect of Zheng Feng's deck ended, and he immediately summoned the healing card -

However, Chen Xiao immediately summoned the Black Lily.

Black Lily emits a poisonous scent within a 30-meter range, which negates all positive and healing effects.

Zheng Feng: “…”

No wonder Chen Xiao fought so hard, it turned out that he had this hidden card that would invalidate the treatment.

Since there was no cure, the statue soon died.

Zheng Feng was killed by Chen Xiao's desperate play, and two output cards were killed in a row. The remaining five cards were all rebound and treatment cards. Next, the rhythm of the game was quickly controlled by Chen Xiao. He secretly withdrew Midnight to the safe zone, and when the next wave of bubbles burst, he would release it to suck blood and harvest.

Zheng Feng has strong defensive abilities, but now he has no output cards left and can only drag the game on.

However, Chen Xiao's firepower was too strong, and before the plant cards were killed by the scene bubbles, Zheng Feng's cards were killed by him first.

In the final match, there was only one "Black Lily" with extremely high health and "Midnight Secret" that could absorb blood when killing the target. Chen Xiao won the second game!

Is it really going to be a miracle of winning two games in a row?

The audience stared with eyes wide open, unable to believe that Chen Xiao could actually turn the tables.

But facts have proved that the more Chen Xiao fights, the more ferocious he becomes, and the more skillful he becomes!

After randomly getting the high-difficulty map "Mirror Forest" in the third game, Chen Xiao still adopted the strategy of fighting violence with violence. He first used the instant death card Cao Chong to forcibly replace the high-defense White Elephant, and then released a large number of single attack cards to kill Lao Zheng's output.

One for one, two for two, three for three!

Chen Xiao fought very hard and seemed particularly passionate to the audience!

In the final rematch, Chen Xiao released two linked cards, Black Parrot and Midnight Secret, and black petals swept across the field, completing the harvest!

Alliance Harvest cards are not uncommon, but the dark plant "Midnight Secret" has a different style. It is just as ferocious as Gui Sirui's Ghoul - every time it kills an opponent, it sucks 10% of the blood and 10% of the attack. The black petals are stained with bright red blood, and they madly sweep through the target with low blood, rolling one and killing one, and the opponent can't stop it at all.

At the end of the game, the audience couldn't believe the 2:1 score on the big screen.

The audience in the live broadcast room was confused: "Did Chen Xiao take hormones today to be so ferocious?" "Brother Chen is awesome! So ferocious!" "I like Midnight Secret, the black petals sweeping all over the sky, what a cool special effect!" "I didn't expect him to beat Lao Zheng..." "I didn't expect it +1" "The counterattack king Chen Xiao, every win is so thrilling!"

All the audience thought that Chen Xiao would lose, even Nirvana's fans didn't hold out much hope.

However, in this game, Chen Xiao gave everyone too many surprises.

So far, he has come back from behind to kill three times in a row, truly worthy of being called the "King of Counterattack".

Even Cheng patted him on the shoulder in a friendly manner after the game, and encouraged him with a smile: "Young people are formidable! Your brother will definitely be very pleased to see your performance today."

Chen Xiao's eyes were hot. He couldn't see his brother's expression, but he knew that Lao Zheng was right.

My brother will be very pleased, right?

Five years.

He finally had a chance to win in a professional league, and the winner was the league's veteran, the great Zheng Feng!

Chen Xiao held back the tears in his eyes and bowed deeply towards the stage.

Because it was a knockout match today, the number of spectators present was several times more than that of the group stage. The entire venue was filled with a sea of ​​people. When Chen Xiao bent 90 degrees and bowed, the spectators gave him warm applause without hesitation.

——Chen Xiao is back.

Five years ago, when that high-spirited and stubborn young man left the alliance, all he left behind was a gloomy back, and he was despised and cursed by countless people.

Today, the young man who bowed on the stage had confidence in his eyes and received heartfelt applause from the audience.

He has changed.

Chen Qianlin and Tang Muzhou in the backstage both had this feeling.

At this moment, Chen Xiao, standing on the stage with a smile after bowing, looked very handsome and dazzling.

He no longer had the youthful innocence and stubbornness of his youth, but was replaced by calmness and confidence. All the spotlights on the stage were focused on him, and he seemed like a king who was born to be on this stage.

The author has something to say:

There are a few scenes with teammates before the team competition starts, which makes the progress of Chen Ge, Xiao Ke, and Qin Xuan clearer. Otherwise, it would be weird if Nirvana won :)

How come Chen Xiao is also the third male lead? He can't be too over the top.