At three o'clock in the afternoon, the three of them walked into the school gate together.
The auditorium was particularly lively today because it was a "16 to 8" competition. After a week of school, the students had gotten to know each other, so a large number of the players' relatives and friends came today. Some of them even exaggeratedly held up cheering signs that read "Come on XX!"
Xie Mingzhe led the two of them into the auditorium and chose a seat with a better view.
The game started on time at 3:30.
The beautiful senior from the Star Card Association was the host of this competition. She walked onto the stage gracefully and said, "Welcome everyone to the freshman exchange competition semi-finals. This afternoon we will have the 16-to-8 and 8-to-4 knockout rounds. The four groups will play two-on-two, best-of-three. The winners will advance, and the losers will be eliminated directly. Now, let me introduce the players who have entered the top 16!"
As she read out the names, the contestants walked onto the stage one by one.
There were ten boys and six girls. Since the girls were all tall and long-legged, Yu Ke was the shortest among them. Xie Mingzhe introduced the shortest guy in the middle to his master and Chen Xiao: "The shortest guy in the middle is Ke Xiaoke, whose real name is Yu Ke."
Chen Xiao twitched his lips: "He looks like a child who hasn't grown up yet. He doesn't look very reliable!"
Chen Qianlin also felt that the child looked too young.
Xie Mingzhe smiled and said, "He has a strong explosive power. Brother Chen, you will know when you watch him play in the game later."
Round of 16, first match: Lei Ze from the School of Chemistry, majoring in applied chemistry, vs. Yu Ke from the School of Law, majoring in economic law.
Subtitles appeared on the big screen, and enthusiastic cheers from the audience rang out.
The two contestants walked onto the stage and shook hands in a friendly manner.
This scene is a bit weird, because Yu Ke’s head is not even up to Lei Ze’s chest, and there is a huge height difference.
There was a burst of laughter from the audience, and some people whispered: "Could that Yu Ke be an elementary school student who sneaked in?" "Don't laugh at others' height, there are not many boys as cute as him..." "I feel so sorry for him, Lei Ze is half a body taller than him, and when they stand together, they feel like father and son." "Hahaha, he really can't reach his chest, he's so small..."
Xie Mingzhe frowned. What's wrong with being small? It's still unclear who is the dad on the court!
The competition begins with a best-of-three elimination system.
Yu Ke won 25 games in a row in the preliminary round and ranked first in Group A. Lei Ze won 23 of 25 games and ranked fourth in Group C.
The two people's decks were soon announced on the big screen. Yu Ke still showed the joker card, while Lei Ze showed a hand of fire beast cards.
As soon as the countdown ended, Yu Ke summoned three joker cards in quick succession.
His speed was so fast that the audience only saw a flash before their eyes, and the most common female ghosts and headless dolls in horror movies appeared on the screen. Many timid students turned pale, but Lei Ze remained calm and quickly summoned three beasts!
The two sides started a 3V3 attack. Yu Ke's ghost card was very flexible and her positioning was very skillful. The erratic female ghost continuously avoided the opponent's pounce and bite, and suddenly went around and attacked without the opponent knowing!
The critical damage after the joker's circling was very high. In the blink of an eye, one of Lei Ze's beast cards was killed instantly!
Unexpectedly, the young man fought so ferociously. Lei Ze was a little surprised for a moment and immediately summoned the group control card. However, Yu Ke had already prepared for this move of the opponent and decisively used a Liu Bei to release the control in range. He also gave a gold shield to the headless doll with the highest critical strike rate.
Lei Ze's counterattack failed, but Yu Ke seized the opportunity, deployed all the jokers, and concentrated his fire to instantly kill the opponent's output card.
At this time, 7v5, Lei Ze was in a huge disadvantage.
But the player who can make it to the top 16 must not be too weak. He quickly adjusted his strategy and summoned a super thick-skinned defense card - the White Elephant!
The appearance of the 200,000 HP White Elephant was enough to buy him a lot of buffer time. He had hidden this card in his hand, and he believed that his opponent had not guessed it.
However, the next moment, Yu Ke decisively summoned Nuwa.
Nuwa created humans, and successively created two male clay figures, and at the same time, they set their eyes on the white elephant opposite!
When Xie Mingzhe was making the Nuwa card, he designed it to be very flexible. The babies can be summoned according to different situations. Two boys can attack, two girls can be resurrected to delay the game, or one boy and one girl can stabilize the situation. It all depends on how the player uses it.
Yu Ke was obviously very smart. He probably guessed that his opponent would hide a high-health defense card in his hidden cards, so he brought Nu Wa in this game. As soon as the opponent's high-health card came out, he immediately released the baby boy to mark the elephant - all damage received in the marked state increased by 50%. If two marks were stacked, the damage received could increase by 100%!
The doubled damage is quite scary, not to mention that among Yu Ke's joker cards, there are two cards that do not rely on skills to make a living.
The hair attack of the red and white female ghosts is a ranged group attack skill with a long cooldown time, but the headless doll and hanged ghost are both high-damage normal attacks, which means that even without skills, these two cards can still deal explosive damage.
Especially when the white elephant was marked by Nuwa's baby!
In a blink of an eye, the White Elephant's health of 200,000 was reduced to 100,000, and Lei Ze was simply terrified!
He put the white elephant in the front and immediately summoned the remaining three beast cards, aiming directly at the red and white female ghosts, and killed the two ghost cards instantly with one burst.
The situation became 5v5, and it seemed that Lei Ze had pulled back a point, and the situation was in a stalemate.
However, at this moment, a fat ghost suddenly emerged from the ground. He opened his mouth wide and devoured the souls of the dead cards at a very fast speed. The characteristic of the ghoul is that the more dead cards there are on the field, the higher the attack power he gains after devouring the corpses!
At this time, both sides had two cards dead, the death count was 4, and the basic attack power of the Ghoul increased by 4 times!
With just one bite, the bloody white elephant was killed by the corpse-eating ghost...
With the death of the white elephant, the ghouls continued to devour corpses, and their attack power increased again. Lei Ze's beast card had almost no power to resist and was devoured by the ghouls that suddenly appeared!
——Victory!
Yu Ke won, but there wasn't much applause because the students were all confused.
Fortunately, the hostess reacted quickly and said excitedly: "Congratulations to Yu Ke for winning the first game! The ghoul appeared at the critical moment and devoured the corpses to achieve a harvesting effect. This game was won beautifully!"
Those who just laughed at him for being too young and standing in front of Lei Ze as "father and son" all changed their attitudes: "This kid is quite powerful!" "He is small but brave, and his explosive power is amazing!" "The card of the ghoul is really hard to deal with. It is a late-stage card. The more dead cards, the stronger the attack power. Lei Ze was still careless..." "The little guy is so fierce on the court. I underestimated him!"
Xie Mingzhe ignored the discussions around him. He leaned over to his master's ear and asked, "Master, what do you think?"
Chen Qianlin nodded: "Let's take another look."
In the second round, Lei Ze replaced two hidden cards in a row, which were obviously aimed at Yu Ke's cards.
Xie Mingzhe had a bad feeling that Zhong Kui's instant death skill could kill a joker card instantly and disrupt Yu Ke's rhythm. Lei Ze would probably bring Zhong Kui with him if he had him.
At the beginning of the game, both sides fought against each other in the early stage. When the number of death cards on the field reached four, Yu Ke summoned the Ghoul, and the next second, Lei Ze really summoned a death card - Zhong Kui Catching Ghosts!
The ghoul was captured by Zhong Kui before he could attack. What was even more annoying was that if Nuwa's baby was captured, there would be no way to revive it because it did not count as "death". It could be said that Uncle Fatty's instant death card had screwed him over.
Xie Mingzhe was a little embarrassed. Did he cheat his own people by making instant death cards?
Yu Ke's expression was calm, but after his opponent won a game, his eyes became brighter and his fighting spirit was high.
The score became 1:1, and the next round was the deciding game. Yu Ke took a deep breath and changed a hidden card.
Lei Ze found that Zhong Kui's instant death card was highly targeted at Yu Ke, so he brought Zhong Kui to the court again in the third round. However, just when he summoned Zhong Kui to take away the opponent's joker card, a tall giant suddenly raised the giant axe in his hand, and with a "bang", a deep trench was split on the ground!
Pangu, created the world!
This stunning skill effect made many audience members exclaim in surprise.
Pangu's 5-second ceasefire gave Yu Ke time to adjust quickly. He let the ghouls devour the corpses on the field as quickly as possible. At the moment when Pangu's ceasefire ended, he released the ghouls first, and they ate Zhong Kui in turn!
Lei Ze: “…”
Audience: “…”
The dead card was counter-killed, and this sudden change made everyone unable to believe it.
Xie Mingzhe in the audience raised his lips in admiration. He remembered what Tang Muzhou had said to him: "An instant kill hand does not necessarily put the opponent in a passive position. A player with strong awareness can use the instant kill hand to his advantage."
Yu Ke just used the instant death card to block the rhythm of a wave of skills and completed the counterattack.
The live broadcast screen showed the images of two people playing a game. Yu Ke looked small, indeed like an elementary school student who had sneaked into a university. However, at this moment, the boy's face was frighteningly calm. He was wearing a helmet, and his mind was highly concentrated, with a pair of eyes that were so bright that they were almost glowing.
On the other hand, Lei Ze was obviously a little panicked, his face was pale, and the corners of his mouth were tightly pursed in unhappiness.
After swallowing Zhong Kui, the Corpse-Eating Ghost's attack power exploded because it had eaten 5 corpses. It could kill any god or Buddha that stood in its way. It cleared the field in a blink of an eye and ate up all of Lei Ze's low-health cards.
Seeing the devil getting fatter and fatter, the audience was terrified.
Yu Ke's fighting style is really weird!
At the beginning, he released the female ghost and the doll to work together to assassinate the opponent's core card. When both sides were almost dead, he enlarged the ghoul in the later stage to devour the corpses. His attack speed was too fast. Even if Lei Ze found an opportunity to counterattack in the second round, he quickly thought of a way to deal with it in the third round and cleverly completed the counterattack!
The host said excitedly: "2:1, the winner is Yu Ke! Congratulations to the first player to enter the quarterfinals, Yu Ke from the Law School!"
There was a deafening applause at the scene. After Yu Ke finished the game and knew that he won, he started to smile. The smiling boy was so excited that his cheeks were red. He ran to shake hands with Lei Ze. Lei Ze looked at the little guy who was not even as tall as his chest, shook hands with him with mixed feelings, and praised awkwardly: "Great, great."
Many girls in the audience screamed excitedly: "I really want to take him as my brother!" "So cute, especially when he looks so serious. If I had a brother like this, I would spoil him to the sky..."
Xie Mingzhe smiled slightly and gave Yu Ke a thumbs up in his heart.
Chen Xiao also sighed: "I didn't expect that the little guy would react so quickly." He leaned close to Chen Qianlin's ear and asked, "Brother, what do you think?"
Chen Qianlin's eyes showed a rare glimmer of admiration: "No need to look any further, this Yu Ke is indeed worthy of training."
Hearing this, Xie Mingzhe was even happier than when Chen Qianlin agreed to take him as his apprentice.
He was right about Xiao Ke!
Chen Qianlin calmly analyzed, "Yu Ke has a quick reaction and flexible thinking. He can adjust his mentality and strategy immediately after losing a game. There are not many people who can do this. Moreover, his playing style is very special. If he joins Nirvana, he will become the strongest killer in the team in future team battles and the key card to help you assassinate the opponent." Chen Qianlin paused, looked at Xie Mingzhe and said, "If you build a joker card pool for him specifically according to his style, Xiao Ke's strength can be further improved."
Xie Mingzhe nodded excitedly: "Well, I'll go talk to him after the game."
Chen Xiao was a little confused: "Are you sure he will agree to join our Nirvana Club? What if he is not interested in working as a professional?"
Xie Mingzhe smiled confidently: "From what I know, he will definitely agree. If he doesn't agree... then I will go to his dormitory door to block him and force him to agree."
Chen Qianlin: “…”
If we do this, it will seem like we are a gangster organization. Will Yu Ke be scared to death?
Chen Xiao smiled and touched his nose: "Then I'll wait for your good news. I'll treat the new team members to dinner tonight."
Looking at Yu Ke who walked down from the big stage with an excited look on his face, Xie Mingzhe smiled slightly and thought that being able to trick the little puppy onto the pirate ship of Nirvana was really his biggest gain since the start of the school year!