“To put it simply, when a team faces difficulties, wouldn't the most logical approach be for everyone to work together, achieve results, and overcome the obstacles? But now, in the case of Excellent Era, when faced with difficulties, a small group of people led by Liu Hao have already regarded the team as a sinking ship, preparing to abandon it and escape for their lives,” Ye Xiu finally summarized.

“Then why has Sun Xiang been benched instead?” Chen Guo asked.

“Regardless of Excellent Era's ultimate fate, this decision benefits them,” Ye Xiu said.

“How so?” Chen Guo asked.

“Excellent Era’s outcome this season will be one of two things. One is that they won't be relegated, which would be great for everyone. Even with Sun Xiang, they couldn't achieve any better results. On the contrary, if Excellent Era can retain their spot without Sun Xiang, they can announce this and give everyone some expectations for the next season. After all, Excellent Era wouldn't consider just retaining their spot as a victory; they need to ensure that their supporters always see the hope of winning a championship from them,” Ye Xiu said.

“If they are relegated, they can say that it's because their core player Sun Xiang was absent as an excuse, right?” Chen Guo responded, inferring from his statement.

“That's just one reason. If they are relegated, it would be a terrible result, and Excellent Era would have to do a lot of appeasement work. Look at today's news, Sun Xiang isn't suddenly sidelined; he's been persevering through matches with injuries for a long time, and now he can't hold on anymore. So, even the poor performance in previous matches can be accounted for. However, for Excellent Era, such a terrible performance with just a star player being injured isn't enough. Therefore, Excellent Era will probably undergo a major reshuffle this summer. Only such a move can give supporters hope for the team's future. Once even the fans lose confidence in the team, that would be the worst thing for a team. So, everything Excellent Era is doing now is focused on retaining the support of the fans. No matter what the final outcome is, they can't let the fans not see a future.”

“Benching Sun Xiang and using Sun Xiang as a reason to advance or retreat is precisely because Sun Xiang represents the core of Excellent Era,” Ye Xiu finally said.

“Alright!” Chen Guo breathed a sigh of relief. “Now that we've figured this out, what should we do?”

“We… we can't do anything for the time being,” Ye Xiu smiled wryly. “At least we have to wait for the outcome of this season.”

“But everyone better pray for Excellent Era because even if Excellent Era is relegated, the Excellent Era team in the Challenger League will only be more powerful and terrifying than they are now. It's best not to encounter such an opponent in the Challenger League,” Wei Chen then said. This shameless guy was full of worries when he said this.

“What if we defeat Excellent Era in the Challenger League? Wouldn't that team be completely finished?” Tang Rou suddenly interjected.

“Eliminate Excellent Era…” Wei Chen was stunned.

Once Excellent Era is eliminated in the Challenger League, although they can still participate in the next year's challenge, if they continue to wallow in the Challenger League for two consecutive years, will anyone still remember their former status as a powerhouse? Will a top-tier player like Sun Xiang be able to tolerate wasting his prime years on a stage like the Challenger League? If this were to happen, then Excellent Era might indeed fall into a vicious cycle, gradually sinking into the increasingly competitive professional circle.

“Are you planning to bury the dynasty you created with your own hands?” Wei Chen turned his head and asked Ye Xiu.

“What do you mean I'm planning? If we really meet, we'll have to fight to the death! That's professional quality; I knew you wouldn't understand something like quality,” Ye Xiu said.

“Quality? Do you have it?” Wei Chen said with extreme contempt.

Seeing that the two were about to start a trash-talking battle again, fortunately, Chen Guo spoke up in time to interrupt them: “Since that's the case, then we have to work harder. It's getting late today, so everyone should go rest.”

The boss had spoken, and everyone respected her, and having watched the game recordings non-stop for a long time, they were indeed a little tired at this point. Several people left the private room, and Wei Chen reached the stairway, seemingly waiting for Ye Xiu to say something more, but he saw Ye Xiu turn directly into the room there.

“What's the situation?” Wei Chen hurriedly leaned back to look, only to see Chen Guo and Tang Rou also entering this room one after another.

“What's going on?!” Wei Chen was even more surprised, but the door "bang" closed.

“Old Wei, are you coming or not?” The one who had gone down the stairs earlier, Steamed Bun, was already calling out to Wei Chen.

“No manners, Old Wei is what you call me?” Although Wei Chen was surprised, he couldn't break down the door to see what was going on. Hearing Steamed Bun's call, he scolded as he went downstairs.

“Then what should I call you? Old Wei?” Steamed Bun asked.

“…Just call me Old Wei…” Wei Chen said.

“I knew it!” Steamed Bun said.

“You knew what?” Wei Chen asked.

“What is it?” Steamed Bun.

“Hmm?” Wei Chen.

“Hmm!”

“Hmm what? You hmm!!” Wei Chen looked up to the sky speechlessly. With this teammate, he had some doubts about his decision after accepting Ye Xiu's invitation for the first time.

After a night of rest, they met again the next day at the Internet cafe. Chen Guo watched as two people had arrived one after another, and immediately started to remodel the layout of the second floor of the Internet cafe, even grandly envisioning the澎湃 (péng pài - surging) idea of simply turning the entire second floor into a training room. Later, she was persuaded by Ye Xiu with great effort.

“Don't be so extravagant when you're just starting out. It's good enough to have a private room where you won't be disturbed. Actually, there's no need to make any adjustments. Just divide out a few private rooms, and it's not like we have to all sit together!” Ye Xiu advised.

“It's still better to sit together,” Chen Guo finally dismissed the idea of directly tearing down the second floor and rebuilding it, but she insisted on everyone sitting together. The decoration personnel who had only been in contact and negotiation before were also quickly on site today, and started working in a circle.

Wei Chen and Steamed Bun arrived at the Internet cafe together, and went straight to the second floor. When they passed the door of the suite, they tried to peek inside in a sneaky manner, completely unlike Steamed Bun, who was upright and looked straight ahead.

Chen Guo was personally supervising the renovation and remodeling. When she saw the two of them coming, she casually greeted them and then pointed to room 213. Wei Chen and Steamed Bun went inside and saw Ye Xiu and Tang Rou were already busy at their computers. They leaned over to take a look, and both of them were running dungeons!

Steamed Bun's teammate had already given Wei Chen a shock. At this time, he was very慎重 (shèn zhòng - cautious) and prepared to observe this teammate. After seeing that Tang Rou's class was a Battle Mage, Wei Chen couldn't help but glance at Ye Xiu over there. With the guidance of this top-notch Battle Mage expert in the Glory circle, this beauty's level should be very reliable, right?

Speaking of which, Wei Chen hadn't witnessed Steamed Bun's strength yet. After having real contact, although he knew that the person Ye Xiu had pulled in must have some skills, he couldn't help but deeply suspect it, unable to restrain himself.

While Wei Chen was observing Tang Rou's game, Steamed Bun sat down, skillfully turned on the computer, swiped his account card, and entered the game. Then, he warmly greeted, “Old Wei, come and sit down. Do you want to spar and let me see your strength?”

Wei Chen almost spat out a mouthful of old blood onto the wall. He hadn't even tested him yet, and this guy dared to say he wanted to see his strength.

“Good! I'll take this opportunity to see how great you are!” Wei Chen said, not even watching Tang Rou's game anymore. He went over and sat down heavily, preparing to teach this Steamed Bun a lesson.

“I'm in, where are you?” Wei Chen shouted as he rushed to the arena.

“Ordinary area, room 5684.” Steamed Bun seemed much calmer than Wei Chen.

Wei Chen entered the room number and went straight in. He was still scolding Steamed Bun for not even setting a password, but when he saw the room he entered, it wasn't a one-on-one; there were already seven people, obviously about to play a team match.

“What's going on?” Wei Chen said strangely, turning his head to look at Steamed Bun's screen. Steamed Bun's character was standing alone in the room waiting for him!

Just as he was about to ask again, Ye Xiu, who was sitting across the table, turned his head halfway and said, “Is this your first day playing Glory? You're in the Gods Domain and you want to enter the arena in the normal area?”

Ye Xiu didn't need to look to know what kind of problem these two guys had encountered.

“Tenth server?” Wei Chen was stunned, and then he leaned closer to take a closer look at the character on Steamed Bun's screen, a Liumang (Rogue) named Baozi Invasion, level 61.

Wei Chen was instantly half dead with anger. This dead Steamed Bun who wanted to examine his strength hadn't even reached max level himself. At the same time, he realized that Ye Xiu had told him yesterday that these two were new to Glory, but he hadn't paid much attention. Looking at it now, the tenth server, a level 61 character, was extremely new! He probably started playing when the tenth server opened, which means it's been at most four months.

A Glory player who had been playing for four months was already preparing to enter the professional circle? As someone who had been there, Wei Chen really couldn't believe it, which further strengthened his desire to examine this Steamed Bun's strength.

“You wait!” Wei Chen said, and then started to have his Windward Formation return from the Gods Domain to the normal area. Through this method, characters from the Gods Domain could also compete with people in the normal area, but the results in the normal arena wouldn't be included in the statistics of the Gods Domain arena.

“Rebuild a room, a modified field,” Wei Chen said to Steamed Bun.

“Oh?” Steamed Bun was confused for a moment, and also turned his head to look at Wei Chen's screen, and immediately understood: “Oh, you don't even have equipment, that's so miserable, it must be a modified field.”

Wei Chen almost spat out another mouthful of blood. His Windward Formation was indeed running around naked, but that was nonsense. When a character from the Gods Domain returns to the normal area, wouldn't all the equipment have to be left there? Was the main reason he said to open a modified field because of this? Of course not, it was because there was a level difference between the two sides. Of course, the problem of not having equipment was also solved by the modified field, but that was definitely not the main reason, definitely not!

“Room number!” Wei Chen, who had rushed to the arena, was about to explode.

Chapter 150 No Equipment