Chapter 45 Analyzing the Situation

Yu Wenzhou looked through the leaderboards of the three small dungeons one by one before turning back to ask Huang Shaotian.

Huang Shaotian stood behind him, raising a hand to stroke his chin before shaking his head. "It's been too long since I played these dungeons. I can't tell anything just from looking at the records. Do you know the people who set the records? Anything special about them? Class, equipment, do you know any of that?" After saying a couple of things, Huang Shaotian looked towards Chun Yi Lao.

"Oh… the key person is this one, Jun Mo Xiao." Chun Yi Lao pointed at the name that appeared on all three leaderboards. He was ranked second in Frost Forest, and topped the leaderboards for Burial Grounds and Desolate Land.

"What's wrong with him?" Huang Shaotian asked.

"This person's character hasn't job-advanced. He's an unspecialized character. Also, the weapon in his hand is very strange. It can freely change its form and use low-leveled skills from various classes," Chun Yi Lao said. The secret of the Myriad Manifestations Umbrella couldn't be hidden at all, so Ye Xiu hadn't thought of concealing it. Most expert players who had interacted with him, like Blue River, had already figured it out.

"Oh? There's actually a weapon like that?" Hearing this, Yu Wenzhou's attention increased quite a bit. Before, he had more or less seen through Chun Yi Lao's intentions, so he was just responding politely, but now there was something that truly interested him.

"A weapon like that must be self-made! Sounds like it's specially made for unspecialized characters," Huang Shaotian said.

"Unspecialized character..." Yu Wenzhou clearly knew about this playstyle as well.

"If that's the case, then this weapon can truly allow the characteristics of an unspecialized character to shine. Early unspecialized characters had many flaws in the continuity of their attacks due to the weapon switch cooldown and high weight. They couldn't perfectly string together low-leveled skills from multiple classes. A weapon like that would solve this problem. Moreover, if it has Silver weapon attributes, then its damage output would be higher than an Orange weapon. Adding on the skill continuity of the unspecialized character class, a team with a character like that would naturally have a higher damage output than a normal team. This person is indeed a very crucial character," Huang Shaotian said.

Yu Wenzhou nodded, clearly agreeing with Huang Shaotian's view. He then looked at the other members of Jun Mo Xiao's team. "What about the others?"

"These three are fixed members of Jun Mo Xiao's team. One is a Battle Mage, one is a Launcher, and the other is a Striker. All three are quite skilled. As for the last spot, it doesn't seem to have a fixed member. In Frost Forest, it's someone from Tyrannical Ambition. The Flowing Tree in Burial Grounds is a Swordsman who joined our Blue Brook Guild at the time. He didn't say a word and hasn't logged on since setting the record. Lastly, One Inch Ash only appeared in the last two days. His origins are currently unclear."

"What about the Frost Forest team from Excellent Dynasty?" Yu Wenzhou asked.

Chun Yi Lao quickly introduced the five classes in Excellent Dynasty's team. They had investigated this.

"It's clearly a hired player... Newbie players in the new server wouldn't have the skill to set such high records," Yu Wenzhou said.

"I think so too," Chun Yi Lao said.

"Moreover, it might not just be an ordinary hired player. Look at the time the Burial Grounds record was set. It was right before and after our match against Team Excellent Era. Excellent Era's vice-captain, Liu Hao, made multiple extremely basic mistakes in that match. His condition was surprisingly poor. It seems like that guy went to the new server to dungeon and diverted his attention!" Yu Wenzhou said.

"No way... It's just a small dungeon. Pro players can easily set a record. Would it affect his attention towards the match?" Chun Yi Lao said.

"This Burial Grounds record is unusual. Shaotian, what do you think?" Yu Wenzhou said.

Huang Shaotian nodded. "This Burial Grounds record isn't just a matter of skill anymore. You can't set such a record with just skill. At this stage in the new server, there wouldn't be much amazing equipment, so it's only possible that they have a better dungeon strategy than before, increasing the clear time."

"As expected of Huang Shao..." Chun Yi Lao couldn't help but exclaim in admiration. They had looked at the record countless times, but they didn't dare to make any conclusions. Perhaps only a Great God like Huang Shaotian, with top-notch skill and amazing judgment, would dare to confidently give an answer.

"In that case, Excellent Dynasty's record was set by Liu Hao, and he even researched a new strategy for it, expending a lot of energy. That's why his condition in the match was poor?" Chun Yi Lao summarized.

"I'm afraid it's more than that. That guy might not have gone to research a new strategy, but to steal a new strategy..." Yu Wenzhou said.

"Ah?"

"This new strategy record appeared three times," Yu Wenzhou said, tapping the screen. "Two teams, such a coincidence that they both researched a new strategy? Notice Jun Mo Xiao's first record. There was a person called Departing Sorrow in the team, but after Excellent Dynasty surpassed them, the person called Departing Sorrow disappeared from their team, and they switched to someone called Flowing Tree. These two characters have different classes, so they shouldn't be the same person. In this dungeon, a Swordsman doesn't have any more advantages than a Berserker. If it's because the Swordsman player is more skilled than the Berserker, then why didn't they directly have the Swordsman come in the first place? So the most likely possibility is that the new strategy was researched by Jun Mo Xiao. The Berserker Departing Sorrow was someone from Excellent Dynasty who mixed into their team. After learning the new strategy, he went back and led the people from Excellent Dynasty to reset the record. Jun Mo Xiao, of course, wouldn't be able to find Departing Sorrow to help him at this time, so he found the Swordsman Flowing Tree."

Chun Yi Lao was dumbstruck. He never would have imagined that so much could be seen from here.

The time the record appeared, the background of Excellent Dynasty, Liu Hao's unusually terrible performance in the league... Yu Wenzhou had noticed so many details. This Blue Rain captain clearly wasn't just a warm person who was good at uniting his teammates, as the outside world said. This level of observation and judgment wasn't below Huang Shaotian's. No, perhaps he was even stronger than Huang Shaotian. At least at this moment, Huang Shaotian hadn't made such a bold deduction.

"Captain, you're exaggerating too much. Are you writing a novel?" Not only did he not make a deduction, Huang Shaotian was even doubting Yu Wenzhou's deduction. But in Chun Yi Lao's eyes, Yu Wenzhou's deductions were detailed and plausible.

"Liu Hao must be crazy. Would he put so much effort into a dungeon in the new server?" Huang Shaotian's words couldn't just be that sentence. He continued, "Hehe, that's what I'm saying! So there might be some other special reasons that led him to place so much importance on this dungeon record. He even went to Frost Forest to compete with Jun Mo Xiao, and even went so far as to infiltrate Jun Mo Xiao's team to gather intelligence. It seems like he really values this Jun Mo Xiao! For a pro player to take a second look, Jun Mo Xiao can't be too bad. I have a feeling that Liu Hao knows Jun Mo Xiao very well. Hidden beneath his targeted actions are fear, recognition, and trust. Because he's afraid, he has to run to spy on the other side. Because he recognizes him, he directly uses the stolen strategy, because he believes that the other side's strategy is already the best choice and there won't be any better tactics."

Chun Yi Lao's jaw dropped in surprise. The analysis had actually reached this level? He couldn't help but glance at Huang Shaotian, who was listening with him, but found that Huang Shaotian didn't show any surprise because of this. He still looked quite calm.

"As expected of Huang Shao..." Chun Yi Lao couldn't help but sigh once more. Perhaps some people thought that Huang Shaotian wasn't steady enough because of his talkativeness, but in fact, as the league's most outstanding opportunist, Huang Shaotian was definitely a very patient person.

Only by being patient could he keenly observe the situation on the field and seize the best opportunity.

"So, to know Jun Mo Xiao's background, we can just give Liu Hao a call. I should have Liu Hao's number here..." Yu Wenzhou said with a smile as he reached into his pocket, but quickly realized, "Oh, I didn't bring my phone." Training rooms weren't allowed to have phones. This was a rule that many clubs had.

Chun Yi Lao was looking forward to it, looking forward to knowing the answer. He naturally hoped that Yu Wenzhou would take the initiative, but when he saw that Yu Wenzhou didn't take out his phone and didn't seem to want to get it, Chun Yi Lao was a little disappointed. He certainly didn't dare to order the team's captain, but at this moment, he had no choice but to ask for a favor. Just as he was about to speak, he saw Yu Wenzhou pat his empty pocket and smiled, saying, "Actually, it's easy to know who the person that Liu Hao is targeting, afraid of, recognizes, and trusts is, without even asking."

"Who is it?" Chun Yi Lao blurted out.

"Ye Qiu," Yu Wenzhou said.

"Great God Ye Qiu..." Chun Yi Lao really didn't know what kind of expression to make to show the surprise in his heart at this moment.

"Has Shaotian had any contact with Ye Qiu recently?" Yu Wenzhou asked.

"No, that guy seemed to have vanished from the face of the earth after retiring. Perhaps he's been kidnapped by aliens!" Huang Shaotian said.

"He doesn't use a phone, right?" Yu Wenzhou said.

"Yeah."

"Now it looks like he's been kidnapped by aliens to the tenth server to continue playing Glory... Unspecialized character Jun Mo Xiao, huh? Perhaps one day we'll suddenly see him in a match again!" Yu Wenzhou said.

"..." Chun Yi Lao felt like he had a lot to say, but he couldn't seem to sort out his thoughts and didn't know where to start. Yu Wenzhou and Huang Shaotian didn't have much of a reaction to this startling conclusion. Yu Wenzhou pondered for a moment before raising his head to look at the clock in the training room and suddenly stood up.

"Time to eat," Yu Wenzhou said.

"Yeah, yeah, time to eat. Come, let's go together, Da Chun. Do you know where the cafeteria is? I'll take you!" Huang Shaotian put his arm around Chun Yi Lao and dragged him out.