Hu Die Lan
Chapter 844 Control
“Of course, I have enough.” Lou Guan Ning said with great confidence. They were making steady progress in snatching wild boss drops in the Heavenly Domain, enjoying a stable harvest. In the normal servers, Yizhan Tianxia had already established a strong presence, spread across all ten servers, and was quite competitive. Moreover, while the Heavenly Domain was only one, there were ten normal servers. Although the refresh rates were the same, the total output from the normal servers was ten times that of the Heavenly Domain. In terms of accumulation, the normal servers had far more materials than the Heavenly Domain.
Yizhan Tianxia wasn't formed on a whim; it had accumulated resources in the normal servers for a long time. If the Great God had mature silver equipment crafting techniques, it would mean no additional materials were needed. Creating a piece of silver equipment for such a small value was like a gift from the heavens.
“That's good. I'll take a look for you later too. If your materials are sufficient, help me out if I need anything!” Ye Xiu said.
“No problem!” Lou Guan Ning readily agreed. It wasn't like endless research; once the product was made, the cost of one piece of silver equipment was nothing to a guild with their capital. Ye Xiu was weak and alone, so upgrading the Myriad Manifestations Umbrella was so difficult. If it were handed over to a professional club, with the ready-made blueprints, the equipment would be made in minutes.
After Lou Guan Ning and Ye Xiu reached this verbal agreement, he left happily. He once again experienced the benefits of befriending a Great God. It was something that money couldn't buy. If money could solve it, Lou Guan Ning really wished he had a comprehensive talent like that on his side.
Ye Xiu borrowed equipment from Yizhan Tianxia again and distributed it to everyone. Everyone equipped themselves as they had the previous week, and then adjusted to the changes in their characters after the equipment swap.
The night passed without incident. The next day was for pre-match adjustments and training. This was the fourth official match for Team Happy, so the rhythm of this training didn't require Ye Xiu to guide everyone by hand. Everyone had mastered it and consciously carried it out according to the schedule every day.
At eight o'clock that night, the second round, second leg of the Challenger League officially began. This round was Team Happy's home game, so the map was naturally chosen by Team Happy.
In the training room of Team Wuji, the boss of Team Wuji personally supervised the battle, and everyone's expressions were extremely heavy. After the last round of the match, the boss of Wuji had already revealed the truth to the players of Team Wuji: if Team Wuji was eliminated in the second round, then the team would have difficulty sustaining itself.
Team Wuji was not like a grassroots team of ordinary players. Player teams were just a few familiar friends playing together, and there was no mention of wages or benefits. Wuji, on the other hand, had other staff members up and down the club, in addition to the players. These personnel expenses, plus water, electricity, food, accommodation and other miscellaneous expenses, cost a lot every day. Although this Challenger League had Excellent Era, making it unlikely for these teams to break through, as long as they could persist until the later offline matches, they could basically survive the entire season.
Once the offline group matches started, and then entered the elimination stage, round by round, the dividends would continue to increase. A professionally born team like Wuji thought that even if they were no match for Excellent Era in the end, before that, as long as they didn't encounter Excellent Era or other professional teams, they could easily enter the elimination stage. But now, it was only the second round, and Team Wuji was about to be eliminated. This was too early. If they wasted a season like this, the boss of Wuji couldn't afford it.
The boss of Wuji truthfully told the team players about this situation. At this time, Team Wuji was already in a do-or-die state of mind. At the critical moment of life and death, everyone was particularly attentive, and the quality of training this week was particularly high. After another round of adjustments today, they finally welcomed the moment that determined their final fate.
What kind of personnel arrangements will Team Happy make? What kind of map will they choose?
Team Wuji had been studying Team Happy day and night this week. They repeatedly and carefully studied the players of Team Happy, speculated on the possible formation of Team Happy based on the characteristics of these players, and finally decided on their own lineup.
The match entered the preparation stage. However, there were fewer players in the room to watch the life-and-death battle this time. The vast majority of those present were true fans of Team Wuji, who came to cheer for the team in this time of life and death. As for those who were waiting to see Team Happy's jokes, it would be a bit unwise to come to this match. With a score of 8.5 to 1, how easy was it to reverse the situation? The face-smacking party didn't come to this match, and players who were interested in Team Happy wouldn't come either. A large part of these people came to see the face-smacking party's jokes. Since the face-smacking party didn't come, they were too lazy to come. Others were also too lazy to watch because the disparity was so great. This once again illustrated that the current elimination system implemented by Glory easily erased suspense too early, making the subsequent matches tasteless.
The only ones who wouldn't think this way were the two participating teams and the fans of Team Wuji.
During the preparation stage, the Wuji fans were doing their best to spam the screen, giving blessings to Team Wuji. Chen Guo was particularly empathetic to the state of these fans, and couldn't help but feel a little sympathy for the fans of Team Wuji. Team Wuji would definitely be defeated by them. There would be no miracle. Chen Guo was extremely convinced of this in her heart.
During the preparation stage, the order of appearance of the two sides' players was determined, the home team selected the map, and after everything was ready, the match officially began.
The map was announced for the first match of the individual competition, and there was an uproar on the side of Team Wuji.
Map: Arena.
Yes, the arena. It was the most frequently used map in the online game's arena, but it was rarely used in the professional circle.
This map was certainly simple and convenient, but it could be said to be a great waste of the home field advantage. The key to the home field advantage was in choosing the map. Choose a map that you often practice on, are familiar with, and are good at, in order to strengthen your own strength. But what was the deal with the arena map? A square platform was completely a map without terrain.
Choosing this map was equivalent to giving up the home field advantage, which made Team Wuji feel very confused. However, the match had already begun, and the players arranged by both sides for the first battle had already jumped into the competition seats. Team Happy's Steamed Bun Invasion, and Team Wuji's Xiaochuang.
The starting players were exactly the same as in the first round. However, for Team Wuji, in the first round, they wanted to give their opponents a show of force, while in the second round, they were thinking that they couldn't afford to lose, and they had to defend this point no matter what.
Therefore, Wu Chen, the captain of Team Wuji, the most reliable player, with three years of professional competition experience, once again took the first battle.
Xiaochuang stood in the competition seat. Wu Chen took a deep breath and looked at the countdown of seconds: 3, 2, 1, the match begins!
Fire!
In the first second of loading the match screen, Wu Chen had already launched an attack. The arena map was small and had no cover. With a roar from Xiaochuang's heavy cannon on his shoulder, a shell flew straight out.
Wu Chen didn't underestimate Steamed Bun Invasion at all. Although he won easily in the previous round, the inexplicable reason made him feel confused. From the previous information about Steamed Bun Invasion, and the performance in the final team competition, Steamed Bun Invasion didn't seem like such a silly player!
Go all out!
At this time, Wu Chen completely forgot about Steamed Bun Invasion's embarrassing and ugly state in the first round, and only wanted to seriously defeat this opponent.
Steamed Bun's reaction was always quick, so this long-range bombardment wouldn't threaten him. Steamed Bun Invasion twisted his body, and the shell passed by. But this was just an overture. Wu Chen's subsequent attacks had already been bombarding continuously. Of course, Steamed Bun wouldn't have such ridiculous things as not being able to find the way again on the arena. In the process of dodging attacks, Steamed Bun Invasion was gradually approaching Xiaochuang.
In a PK with a long-range attacking class like a Gunner, the two sides' health bars would basically not be very close. In this situation of keeping a distance, the Gunner could suppress the opponent's health bar, but once the opponent succeeded in close combat, then at that moment, the Gunner's health bar might be brushed down a section at once.
The health of the two characters would usually drop in such a large range exchange. The final victory or defeat would depend on how the two players grasped their advantageous situation. In addition to operation and awareness, this required a certain amount of calculation. This kind of thing was a bit difficult for the off-the-rails Steamed Bun. This duel, in which no one had the advantage of the map, ended with Steamed Bun Invasion's falling to the ground after the two characters exchanged lives several times.
Steamed Bun's technique was no longer worse than Wu Chen's. This match was mainly lost in the control of the situation. The lives of both sides seemed to be decreasing interactively, but this rhythm was actually under Wu Chen's control. Steamed Bun just killed and killed with a dazed head, and didn't realize this much at all.
"Oh oh oh oh!!!" Seeing the first individual match won, the Wuji fans in the audience were of course boiling. Even in the training room of Team Wuji, everyone's faces were filled with some smiles. Although getting 1 point didn't make their situation any better, the opening victory made them feel some good luck.
Next, the second match, map, Blue Temple, Team Happy's player: Empty Waves.
Seeing this name, the players of Team Wuji were startled. Everyone looked at their upcoming second player, each with a complex expression.