Chapter 143 Teaming Up

“Happy, are they doing the Challenger League?” Sun Zheping was still quite concerned about Glory, even knowing about the Challenger League.

“Yeah, yeah!” Ye Xiu said happily, “The Challenger League, the intensity isn’t that high. You can casually play and find your feeling. And this time, you’ll even encounter Excellent Era in the Challenger League! You can take them down and get revenge for stealing your championship back then.”

Everyone glanced sideways.

Wasn’t the Excellent Era team that stole Hundred Blossom’s championship led by you, you great god? How could you talk like nothing happened?

Before Sun Zheping could say anything, Ye Xiu slapped the table again and shouted, “You’re so lucky! There’s only one round left before the offline matches. You can still make it. If you arrive any later, you won’t have the chance!”

The rules of the Challenger League allowed teams to freely change players during the online elimination rounds; it was quite casual. But once it reached the offline matches, it wasn’t so casual anymore, and it had almost the same rules as the pro league.

Ye Xiu made it sound like he was giving Sun Zheping an opportunity. Everyone stared blankly at the former god. Would Sun Zheping “treasure” such an “opportunity”?

“You want me to help you take revenge on Excellent Era?” Sun Zheping sneered.

“Revenge?” Ye Xiu laughed. “I just want to win.”

“Well said, me too, actually,” Sun Zheping said.

“Hero, let’s do it together!” Ye Xiu said.

“Sign me up.” Sun Zheping’s hand trembled, and an account card flew towards Ye Xiu. Challenger League registration accounts also required a card to log in.

“Awesome!” Ye Xiu caught the card and immediately logged onto the website to update Happy’s Challenger League team information. Once again, the average person was dumbfounded. What? Did such a significant matter get decided with just a few words?

After coming back to her senses, Chen Guo was the first to get excited! Their team actually had another person like that. Wouldn’t their chances of defeating Excellent Era be even greater?

What about Lou Guan Ning? Theoretically, Sun Zheping had already agreed to join Team Everlasting, so he was already considered a member. Even if he didn’t have any matches to play for half a season, shouldn’t he at least inform the team before helping someone else? Any other boss would probably be annoyed at this point. But Lou Guan Ning didn’t mind at all and had a completely delighted expression.

“Alright, have fun you guys. I’m leaving.” Lou Guan Ning’s close friend stood up, casually said goodbye, and prepared to leave.

Sun Zheping, Ye Qiu, they were all resounding names in the Glory circle, but he didn’t take them seriously at all.

“Are you coming to my cocktail party tomorrow?” Seeing his friend head out the door, Lou Guan Ning called out.

“I’ll think about it!” His friend waved without even turning his head and then strode away.

Lou Guan Ning didn’t pay much attention to it, turned around, and smiled at Ye Xiu and the others, “After tomorrow’s event, I have a cocktail party at my place. Want to come?”

Ye Xiu, Chen Guo, and the others looked at each other and indicated that they had no objections. They had come to City B at Lou Guan Ning’s invitation, so they would naturally follow his arrangements.

“Then, let’s continue to tour our team? Senior Sun, you can join us,” Lou Guan Ning said.

“Alright.” Everyone nodded, and then Lou Guan Ning continued to lead everyone, touring them around the entire Team Everlasting club. After that, he arranged lunch, and in the afternoon, Team Everlasting went to discuss the details with Sun Zheping. Ye Xiu and the others casually wandered around before finally plopping down in their training room to play Glory.

That night, the All-Stars Weekend activities continued. This night’s activities were mainly focused on interacting with the live audience. The content of the game this night could be said to be a Glory mod, but these mods were officially designed and would also be available for players to download and enjoy. For example, last year’s All-Stars hurdle race mod was particularly popular, and it was said that Glory officials were even planning to simply embed these mods into the online game’s arena.

What would the game activities be for this All-Stars Weekend? This was a major suspense for the second day’s event, and even the professional players who had signed up to participate didn’t know.

The opening ended, and the activities began.

The first game’s map was projected using holograms, and it was actually a swimming pool. And at the top, the design of the diving boards and platforms made it clear without explanation what the first game activity was: diving.

The live commentator invited the All-Stars players who had been selected to draw names from the audience to the stage. The two introduced the rules of the game in a call-and-response manner. Then, the All-Stars players began to draw lots.

The All-Stars player invited for the diving activity was Team Void’s captain, Li Xuan. During the lottery, Chen Guo was quite interested in reminiscing about the scene when she and Tang Rou went up to participate last year. At that time, she was just a simple Su Mucheng fan, and she was so excited to be able to get close to her idol that she couldn’t even speak properly. Now, a year had passed, and her former idol had become a good friend with whom she could eat, drink, chat, and gossip. Chen Guo was quite content with this.

Microherb Stadium could accommodate 18,000 spectators, and it was packed. This time, without Su Mucheng playing tricks, the lottery didn’t end up on Ye Xiu and the others. After the four players who were drawn from the audience took the stage one by one, the professional players who would participate in this activity also took the stage.

Game activities usually involved four players randomly selected from the audience, one All-Stars player, and three ordinary players, for a total of eight people interacting. But for this diving event, in addition to Li Xuan, there were four other professional players who came down, attracting the attention of the audience. What attracted the most attention was the two girls who came down hand in hand.

“Next, we would like to solemnly introduce two new faces.” As the two girls came down, the live host was also shouting, “They are two newcomers who were discovered by Team Misty Rain during the winter transfer window, Shu Keyi and Shu Kexin! Perhaps you’ve already guessed it from their names. That’s right, these two new players are sisters, and their characters in the game, perhaps you’ve already noticed them during the Christmas event. That’s right, it’s Who Isn’t Headshot! Don’t Dare To Turn Back! Two very domineering IDs! Who would have thought that they would be such two beauties?”

Because the activity was a game, the host’s introduction wasn’t too formal. The electronic screen on the scene also displayed the profiles of the sisters, and they definitely deserved the title of beauties.

The scene immediately stirred up a wave of enthusiasm. Even when Li Xuan came down, the audience hadn’t been so accommodating, which showed that beauties really had special privileges. Especially in the online game world, where there were relatively few girls, and even fewer in the professional circle, and even fewer beauties. Suddenly, two girls appeared, and they were sisters, and they were both so beautiful. The audience at the scene suddenly seemed to have become fans of Team Misty Rain, shouting and cheering. However, in these shouts, the support and cheering were relatively low, and the atmosphere of teasing and heckling was much stronger.

“It’s them!” Ye Xiu couldn’t help but sigh. He had once favored these two and tried hard to invite them, but they ultimately chose Team Misty Rain. Now it seemed that, in addition to their competitive level, the two girls themselves also had enough gimmicks. Sister flowers, if managed well, had an extremely high value!

It was no wonder that these two had rejected Ye Xiu’s invitation almost without consideration. Perhaps these two themselves weren’t just considering their competitive value; they had initially expected this kind of multi-element development, to become true all-round stars.

Thinking of this, Ye Xiu couldn’t help but sigh. Times were advancing, and the league was developing, and the competitive color was becoming less and less pure. Originally, players were only passively developed for their commercial value by the clubs, but now, players themselves were also starting to think about the all-round display of their own value. The league would become more prosperous because of this. Ye Xiu only hoped that the competitive component could continue to maintain its purity. Because from the development of other sports competitions, when capital infiltrated deeper and deeper, the competition would become more and more impure, focusing on the gorgeousness of the scenes, and even match-fixing could be bred. When players lost their pursuit of victory, the competition would be completely reduced to a variety entertainment show. Ye Xiu hoped that this day would never come.

While Ye Xiu was lost in thought, the nine people on the field had been teased by the host one by one. The reason why nine people were participating in this diving event had also been revealed at this point. Shu Keyi and Shu Kexin, these sisters, were going to do a synchronized dive.

“They knew the content of the activity in advance!” Ye Xiu could see that Team Misty Rain wanted to use the All-Stars Weekend event to promote these sisters.

The rookies’ challenge could have been used to promote the sisters, but the problem was that the promotional effect would be best if they were promoted together. The rookies’ challenge didn’t allow two people to fight one, even if it wasn’t a real fight. So, if the sisters wanted to appear together, it could only be in other events. Thus, this diving event was very suitable for showcasing the synchronization and cooperation of these two girls…

Splash!

As the sisters’ characters landed in sync, there was thunderous applause from the audience.

From the take-off to the various movements in the air using operations and skills, the two characters had almost no deviation. Even the water splashes when they landed were so similar. This immediately defeated all the dazzling gimmicks that other players had displayed in the air using their skills. As for ordinary players, there was no need to mention them. Just from the amount of time they were airborne, they were far behind the professional players.

Diving is a sport that requires scoring, and the system couldn’t do it automatically, so the final score was given by the audience, with each seat having a scoring device, and then ranked according to the total score.

After jumping three times back and forth, Shu Keyi and Shu Kexin’s synchronized dive was perfectly flawless, and their scores skyrocketed, leaving the other seven far behind. Ultimately, they undeniably won the diving game. And through this performance, they left an extremely deep impression on the vast number of players. Shu Keyi and Shu Kexin immediately became the most talked about names at this All-Stars event so far. Misty Rain’s marketing had taken its first extremely successful step.

In the second day’s game activities, after diving, they also did a parkour and shooting mod, and naturally, the professional players easily took first place again. After that, in the live challenge, the professional players who participated were still sent by the home team. Microherb sent Gao Yingjie, who easily defeated several audience members, ending the second day’s activities.