Chapter 157 Encounter

The cashier girl was still in a daze when the long-haired youth had already quickly scanned his phone. He said "Oh, oh, oh" while raising his head again and confidently smiling, "Is Chen Guo here?"

"Steamed Bun!" Someone at the counter had already called out. Ye Xiu and Chen Guo were standing on this side! When the Internet cafe was broadcasting a popular match, the two of them would not run to the front to compete with the customers for a good spot, usually just shrinking back to the counter to watch from afar.

"Hmm?" The person responded, turning his head to see a man and a woman beside him, smiling at him.

"Lord Grim, Soft Mist." Ye Xiu introduced himself and Chen Guo with their in-game IDs.

"Oh, oh, I'm Steamed Bun Invasion, I'm here!" Steamed Bun Invasion said.

"I saw you came," Ye Xiu laughed.

"What's going on? Is someone causing trouble? I'll help!" Steamed Bun Invasion was also not shy at all, quickly integrating into the role of a member of Happy Internet Cafe, and already started rolling up his sleeves.

"No, no, we're just broadcasting the match!" Chen Guo said quickly, afraid that Steamed Bun Invasion's enthusiasm would lead him to immediately start trash-talking and attracting aggro.

"Match? There are rarely matches at this time! Serie A or La Liga?" Steamed Bun Invasion asked, very puzzled.

"It's the Glory Pro League," Chen Guo said.

"Glory Pro League... Oh, oh!" Steamed Bun Invasion had a very enlightened expression, and then seriously said with a straight face, "That's right, we are going to play in the professional league, so it's very necessary to watch the professional league matches more, so that we can correctly understand our opponents. Who are we going to observe today?"

As soon as he said this, the host's shout just sounded on the broadcast. The highlight of this round of the league, the match between Team Excellent Era and Team Void, was about to begin.

"Oh, oh, Excellent Era and Void, these are the two teams, we have to observe them carefully," Steamed Bun Invasion said seriously.

"Then let's watch the match first..." Ye Xiu said.

"Definitely!" Steamed Bun Invasion turned his head, maintaining his pose standing in front of the counter, and began to seriously watch the match without blinking.

"I'm very sure that this person is Steamed Bun Invasion," Chen Guo whispered to Ye Xiu.

"Anyway, it won't be Old Wei," Ye Xiu said.

"Why?" Chen Guo asked.

Ye Xiu turned his head and glanced at her, "I know Old Wei."

"Okay..." Chen Guo had to admit that she had asked a stupid question.

The match started quickly. Because it was an Excellent Era match, many Excellent Era fans crowded into the Internet cafe today. As soon as it started, they immediately shouted loudly, their voices full of anxiety. Now the Excellent Era fans were quite worried about the team's current situation.

"Hey! Excellent Era's side is very loud! The Void team's fans shouldn't lose to them!" Steamed Bun Invasion watched the match, but commented on the fans in the Internet cafe. However, the scene he directed, where the Void fans immediately spoke out and competed with Excellent Era, did not happen. The shouts of Excellent Era fans drowned out everything.

"Void is too lacking in momentum, I think they're going to lose tonight!" With this, Steamed Bun Invasion made a great deduction.

"Just watch the match, Steamed Bun..." Ye Xiu said.

"Received!" Steamed Bun Invasion saluted Ye Xiu and continued to pay attention to the match.

As the match progressed, the shouts of the Excellent Era fans contained more and more anger and anxiety. One, two, three, in the individual competition, the three players from Excellent Era simply and neatly lost three matches in a row, causing the Excellent Era fans in Happy Internet Cafe to instantly go crazy. Even Steamed Bun Invasion looked at the result and muttered in stunned silence, "Impossible! How could this be!" It seemed that he was quite confident in his previous deduction.

Amidst the scolding, the team arena in the second round began. The match was full of twists and turns, and everyone was nervous. But finally, Excellent Era won the arena competition and grabbed two points. The Excellent Era fans breathed a sigh of relief and then began to pay more attention to the most important team competition.

"What do you think will happen tonight?" Chen Guo liked to listen to Ye Xiu's predictions for each match. Although it was impossible to guess the ending every time, his well-reasoned analysis was very informative. Chen Guo felt that her Glory level had not improved much in terms of technique, but listening to Ye Xiu's occasional comments, her theoretical level had greatly improved. Now she could gradually see some clues in the match, and sometimes she could despise the commentators and consultants for not being insightful enough in their comments.

"It goes without saying." Ye Xiu shook his head, his face not looking good.

"Excellent Era will lose?" Chen Guo looked at Ye Xiu's face and barely managed to restrain her glee. She now often hoped that Excellent Era would have some bad luck. But seeing Ye Xiu's mood like this, she was too embarrassed to go too far, and she was still very considerate of Ye Xiu's feelings for the team. So at this time, to hold back her laughter, Chen Guo would think more about Su Mucheng, thinking about how Su Mucheng would also be unlucky in this team. In this way, she would not laugh out loud at Excellent Era's bad luck, and it always worked.

"Excellent Era is really a mess now," Ye Xiu said.

"Outsiders are analyzing the reasons, but I think the main one was that time," Chen Guo said. The time she was referring to was, of course, the time when Excellent Era's main force went all out in the game, but Ye Xiu led a group of online game players to a complete victory. Since then, Excellent Era's state has deteriorated day by day.

"It's not just that. Excellent Era has too many flaws now, and no one is trying to find a way to solve them," Ye Xiu said.

"That's really a pity! It would be a waste for Mucheng to continue to stay in Excellent Era. Is there any way to let her leave early?" Chen Guo began to think about this idea. If Su Mucheng was no longer there, she could curse Excellent Era to die without any scruples.

But Ye Xiu did not answer this question. "At this rate, Excellent Era will probably be relegated this season."

"Really? Then won't Mucheng be miserable?"

"Also, if Excellent Era is relegated, then they will be our potential opponent in the Challenger League. A Challenger League with Excellent Era participating will be the most difficult one in history!" Ye Xiu said.

"Ah..." Chen Guo had not thought of this at all before. When Ye Xiu said this, she suddenly realized. Don't look at Excellent Era's laziness in the league now, but whether it's the Battle God One Autumn Leaf or the Rookie King Sun Xiang, their strength is definitely not fake. If it weren't for such a solid foundation, Excellent Era's relegation wouldn't have been reported as an April Fool's Day joke. Obviously, the media and fans would find it incredible for a team with such strength to be relegated.

However, there is nothing absolute in this world. Incredible things are happening step by step before their eyes.

The team competition then began. When the two sides lined up, even Chen Guo shook her head. Excellent Era was trying to cooperate, but this cooperation was too mechanical and rigid, right? There was no intention to adjust according to the opponent's actions at all, as if they were executing the initial practice step by step.

As a result, everyone executed it meticulously, but the problem was that the opponent would not be so rigid. As soon as Team Void made an adjustment, Excellent Era's actions immediately seemed out of sync. Then Li Xuan and Wu Yuce of Team Void cooperated with their Twin Ghosts, showing great power and completely controlling the situation. Excellent Era moved towards defeat at a very fast pace. Even the commentators and consultants pointed out the problems that Excellent Era currently had.

The members of Excellent Era had lost too much, losing to the point where they had no confidence. They didn't not know that sometimes they needed to make changes based on the situation on the field, but they didn't dare. They were afraid of becoming the culprits for the team's failure, so they all just rigidly followed their established tactics.

It could be said that the Excellent Era team's execution was so good that it was almost overdone. This was a PVP professional competition. Mechanically and accurately completing every step was the method of PVE dungeon crawling. To play like this in the professional league, how could they not be completely defeated?

When the Excellent Era match ended, several matches in the same round had also been completed, including the match of Team Mighty Wind, which was only one point behind Excellent Era. The fans went to check the instant match results and standings, and the result was that Team Mighty Wind gave them the last bit of comfort. Because Team Mighty Wind, which finished the match at about the same time, also performed extremely poorly, taking only 2 points like Excellent Era. Excellent Era's one-point advantage was still there.

This team in the relegation zone was naturally not famous for nothing, and its awfulness was completely comparable to that of Team Excellent Era. Speaking of which, although Excellent Era had been constantly declining recently, its points earned in the same period were even worse than those of Mighty Wind. But the vast majority of people still favored Team Excellent Era.

After all, Excellent Era still had the capital to turn the tables, and the team's strength was there. And what about Mighty Wind? The difference in strength was real. The current results were a reflection of their strength, unlike Excellent Era, which could be said as a gimmick on April Fool's Day.

After the match ended, the Excellent Era fans were obviously numb to Excellent Era's recent poor performance. They didn't quarrel or scold, and they were all weak and lifeless, drifting away from the Internet cafe like homeless ghosts.

"Excellent Era actually lost so much, it's really surprising to me, tsk tsk tsk." Steamed Bun Invasion was still sighing, still believing in the idea that a loud voice should win. As for the analysis of the match's content, his vision was far inferior to Chen Guo's.

"Okay, stop savoring it," Ye Xiu patted him, then turned to Chen Guo and said, "Let's go get some late-night snacks together, and welcome Steamed Bun."

"Okay, good." Chen Guo nodded, then called out to Tang Rou.

"Hi, Steamed Bun!" Tang Rou hadn't been in the crowd watching the match before. Now she came down and heard that Steamed Bun Invasion had arrived, so she ran over to greet him.

"Soft Mist," Ye Xiu still introduced her by her in-game ID.

"Ah! It's you! Amazing, amazing! You're amazing in the game, and you're also amazing in person." Steamed Bun Invasion repeatedly praised.

"Amazing in person... Is that complimenting me?" Tang Rou asked with a smile.

"Of course, of course," Steamed Bun Invasion nodded repeatedly.

"Okay, let's go!" Chen Guo took out her boss's aura and greeted everyone to leave the Internet cafe together, then skillfully led everyone to a place. When Ye Xiu saw it, he was also filled with emotion. He was also familiar with this place! When he was in Excellent Era, he often came here for late-night snacks. It's just that the people who used to come with him...

Huh!

Ye Xiu was walking inside while thinking to himself when he suddenly saw the person he had just thought of sitting here, and in the seat they used to sit in.

Excellent Era's boss, Tao Xuan.