Chapter 2 The End of the Second Round

The second stage match finally ended. Just as Li Yibo had predicted, Song Xiao was the final victor.

Ye Xiu was limited by his mana. After paddling for seven minutes, he jumped out and gave Song Xiao's Taolu Shaming a good beating, using up all his mana. In the end, he still lost.

Song Xiao won, but even Blue Rain's die-hard fans couldn't be happy at this time. If it were a personal match, the result would be worth rejoicing over. But as part of the stage match, Ye Xiu defeated Yu Wenzhou and then beat Song Xiao's Taolu Shaming down to only twenty-eight percent health. What was there to be happy about?

Ye Xiu left the stage, and the Blue Rain audience didn't know how to face him. Applaud? Of course not. But they really couldn't bring themselves to boo him. The way this match had gone, it was mainly due to Blue Rain's tactical arrangements. In the end, their own intentions hadn't worked out. Instead, they had been played around with while he paddled, leaving their own faces without glory if they booed Ye Xiu.

"This round finally lasted nineteen minutes and twenty-one seconds. This is probably a new record for one-on-one matches in the professional circle," Pan Lin said at this time.

"Probably," Li Yibo said, nodding.

As for this record, everyone obviously just mentioned it casually and didn't pay much attention to it. Because this was really not a record to be proud of. In a one-on-one match, the faster it ends, the more impressive it is. Only such records are worth remembering.

"But I think Ye Xiu had a pretty big advantage in the final stage. I think he could have controlled it better and saved enough mana to defeat Song Xiao," Pan Lin said at this time.

"Uh… I think he probably intentionally conserved his state, not wanting to consume too much in this round!" Li Yibo said.

"Controlled it so precisely?" Pan Lin muttered to himself, a little disbelieving.

"Good fight." Ye Xiu came down, and the Xingxin players came up to meet him.

"Sit down, sit down. It must have been hard?" Chen Guo said with a worried face. Everyone knew Blue Rain's intentions in this round. Although Ye Xiu had paddled for seven minutes in this round, the two matches overall added up to nearly half an hour. This time was definitely real.

"I'm fine," Ye Xiu said with a smile.

"Don't worry about him. He'll definitely be fine," Wei Chen said.

"How do you know?" Chen Guo said.

"He's been playing online games day and night for more than a year, and he can still maintain his competitive state to this level. Does his ability to adjust and maintain his state even need to be said? The Blue Rain kids actually wanted to use this tactic to exhaust him. They really got the method completely wrong. If they want to exhaust him, they should fight him head-on," Wei Chen said.

"Seems… there's some truth to that!" Chen Guo suddenly remembered that in the regular season, during the match against Howling Wind, Tang Hao had been the first to fight Ye Xiu in the personal competition. The two sides had fought head-on. That one-on-one match wasn't long, but after Ye Xiu defeated Tang Hao and left the stage, he was obviously exhausted. It was indeed easier to exhaust Ye Xiu with such a strong attack.

"If I had known those kids would arrange it like this, I should have gone up to play in the stage match today," Wei Chen said disgruntledly.

Everyone laughed. After learning that Ye Xiu wasn't too tired, everyone was in a better mood. Xingxin's second player to enter the stage was Mo Fan. Blue Rain's map selection was obviously more suited to his style. From the moment they saw the map selection, everyone had already begun to place high hopes on Mo Fan. It was just that this guy didn't show any enthusiastic expression in response to everyone's earnest expectations. He just grunted a muffled "Mm" and went on stage.

The third round of the stage match began. Seeing that it was Mo Fan, Pan Lin and Li Yibo also pointed out that this map was more suitable for Mo Fan's style. Sure enough, after the start, Mo Fan didn't hesitate to take a roundabout route, but he took the west route, while Song Xiao's Taolu Shaming happened to take the east route. The two characters missed each other. When they got close to the center, they still hadn't met. Song Xiao could say a few words in the channel, but Mo Fan didn't say a word. Not seeing Taolu Shaming on the west route, he directly cut across to the east route.

Song Xiao's Taolu Shaming only had twenty-eight percent of his health left, so he didn't dare to be as bold as Mo Fan. Taolu Shaming circled around and cut towards the middle. Looking at the movement routes of both sides from God's perspective, Song Xiao's Taolu Shaming's accidental detour might directly circle behind him!

"Ah, this… should we say that Song Xiao is lucky, or that Mo Fan is a little too careless!" Pan Lin said.

"Careless? Look carefully, Mo Fan is very careful," Li Yibo said with a smile.

"Oh?" Pan Lin received Li Yibo's hint and looked more closely at Destroyer Tirelessly's movements. He gradually saw the clues. Mo Fan's Destroyer Tirelessly wasn't just rushing straight ahead in a single-minded manner. This horizontal cut was using trees and other cover. It was a secret infiltration type.

"Mo Fan is actually so familiar with this map?" Pan Lin said with emotion as he watched.

"I remember you said earlier that Ye Xiu lifted a rock and smashed his own foot, right?" Li Yibo said with a smile. "I think this sentence is more appropriate to give to Blue Rain now!"

"Oh? Oh…" Pan Lin suddenly realized. "Blue Rain intended to exhaust Ye Xiu, but after fighting for so long, not only did they fail to exhaust him, but because it was too long, Xingxin had so long to sit off the field and familiarize themselves with this away map from God's perspective."

"That's right. Mo Fan is just a first-year rookie. How could he be so familiar with Blue Rain's home map? It's all thanks to the nearly thirty minutes of the previous two battles!" Li Yibo said.

"Blue Rain is really… too miscalculated today," Pan Lin sighed repeatedly.

"Now it seems, I think Ye Xiu may not have had a way to end the battle quickly before. Maybe he really deliberately accompanied Blue Rain to wear them down, taking the opportunity to give Xingxin's teammates more information about this difficult map," Li Yibo said.

"This… is it that demonic?" Pan Lin said in surprise.

"Turning a disadvantage into an advantage, isn't that his usual style?" Li Yibo said.

"But when he was One Autumn Leaf before, I didn't think he was so excessive!" Pan Lin said.

"That's probably because he didn't have such a big burden before!" Li Yibo said.

Pan Lin was stunned. After thinking about it again, he immediately felt that this was indeed the case. Ye Xiu was not young anymore, and Blue Rain would specifically target him with consumption tactics. Now, he probably couldn't charge recklessly with his spear like he did when he was young. He needed to use his brain more than his hands to compete. In addition, the team he led, Xingxin, was not comparable to the former powerhouse, Excellent Era. Although Xingxin's characters suddenly had a bunch of level 80 silver equipment in the first round, which scared everyone, after observing the actual combat, the professional teams saw that Xingxin's level 80 silver equipment seemed a bit watery. The characters equipped with it didn't reach the power that theoretical deduction should have.

At most, they were at the level of level 75 silver equipment.

The technical departments of the major strong teams participating in the playoffs also had capable people. Even before Xingxin and Blue Rain's match in the first round was over, some people had already come to this conclusion by observing the match.

Xingxin was only an overcomer after all. The level that their equipment could ultimately reach was only to desperately approach these strong teams. Level 80 silver equipment was not a miracle. It was just a speculative trick. What it could achieve was only approaching, not surpassing.

It was really not easy for Xingxin to get to where they are today. People may have become somewhat accustomed to Xingxin's outstanding performance this season, so that they have overlooked the disadvantaged conditions under which Xingxin has achieved such outstanding results.

And in these hardships, how much effort has Ye Xiu put in?

Leading a powerhouse and leading a new army, which is more difficult, it seems that there is no need to explain, right?

Leading such a new army, Ye Xiu defeated Excellent Era in the Challenger League, won all 37 individual matches in the regular season, entered the playoffs sixth in the regular season, and is temporarily in the lead in the first round against Blue Rain.

Has Ye Xiu really declined?

Where did you see that from!

The current Ye Xiu is probably the strongest he has ever been, right?

He is doing his best to burn and release all his talent in Glory, so that he can lead Xingxin, such a new army, to where they are today! Many people should really open their eyes and take a careful look.

Li Yibo's casual remark suddenly made Pan Lin a little excited. He was immersed in the process of how Xingxin, such a team, went from nothing, from that Internet cafe, all the way to this playoff stage. This step by step was arduous, but also wonderful.

"Sure enough, he's going around the back!" Just then, Li Yibo shouted, calling Pan Lin back to the match. Looking at the field, Song Xiao's Taolu Shaming detoured horizontally, drawing an arc from Destroyer Tirelessly's horizontal route, going around to his back. But…

"He didn't notice!"

Song Xiao kept turning his perspective and looking around, not noticing Destroyer Tirelessly's existence at all.

"What a pity," Pan Lin said. Although his heart had already swayed with Xingxin, his commentary attitude was still professional.

As a result, at this moment, Mo Fan's Destroyer Tirelessly suddenly stopped moving.

"Did Mo Fan notice something? What keen intuition!" Pan Lin shouted.

"Probably because he has crossed most of the distance horizontally and still hasn't encountered his opponent. From this, he can infer that the opponent's choice is different from his. Then, what inference will he make next?" Li Yibo said.

"Turn around. He's returning to his original route!" Pan Lin said excitedly.

"If Song Xiao doesn't make too many adjustments, then they will meet soon," Li Yibo said.

"But Song Xiao needs to pay attention to his perspective now! If he doesn't find the key point, he will be passive if he misses it even slightly," Pan Lin said.

"It depends on how he judges Mo Fan's actions," Li Yibo said.

The two of them obviously sped up their speech at this time, obviously very nervous about the critical situation on the field.

"Approaching, approaching, approaching!" Pan Lin kept shouting.

"Song Xiao… oh no!" Li Yibo sighed, because Song Xiao's perspective at this time just happened not to be facing the end where Destroyer Tirelessly was coming from. And after Mo Fan discovered Taolu Shaming, he immediately made Destroyer Tirelessly hide behind the tree. When Song Xiao's perspective turned to this side again, there was only thick fog.

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