Chapter 1425 The Dawn Before the Decisive Battle

Were Team Happy deliberately trying to mislead people? Players were curious and debated fiercely. However, apart from Blue Rain, other teams ignored it. What tricks did Happy have up their sleeves? Blue Rain was their touchstone. After fighting Blue Rain, everything would be revealed. In any case, they wouldn't meet in the first round, so why worry about it now?

Each team was actively preparing for their respective opponents. The dawn before the great battle was quiet. There was no more news, no more gossip. All the teams were quietly preparing for the moment of arrival.

On June 14th, the highly anticipated playoffs finally began with its opening match.

K City, at Hundred Blossom's home stadium, Hundred Blossom's captain Yu Feng arrived at the venue early, alone. He stood in the very center of the arena, the place where the holographic projection would appear, where the characters would tear each other apart in battle.

Yu Feng raised his head, gazing at the intricate projection equipment above.

Here again…

Yu Feng looked around the arena.

He had been with Hundred Blossom for two years now, and this was his second time standing on the stage of the Hundred Blossom playoffs. Last year, their opponent was Tyranny, and he had witnessed firsthand the emotions of the Hundred Blossom fans towards Zhang Jiale. It seemed like hate, but wasn't that hate just a transformation of love? In the end, it was all because of importance. Yu Feng also hoped to receive such importance, so he worked hard at Hundred Blossom. He hoped to bring the Hundred Blossom fans something they had never had before.

A championship!

Yu Feng had won a championship, which made him luckier than anyone else in the circle. But that championship had too many imprints of others on it. His name was not the main one mentioned in connection with that championship. Yu Feng wanted a championship where his name would be the first thing people thought of when it was mentioned.

That's why he was standing here, why he had so fiercely abandoned the Blue Rain team he once loved so deeply. For this, Zuo Chenrui, that Blue Rain fanatic, had completely trashed him, but Yu Feng just smiled it off.

For what he was pursuing, none of this mattered. The world was fair; to get something, you had to give something up first. That was probably the principle of equivalent exchange. He was like this, and so was Zhang Jiale of Hundred Blossom in the past, wasn't he?

Of course, his feelings for Blue Rain were nowhere near Zhang Jiale's for Hundred Blossom, which was why he came to Hundred Blossom. Yu Feng even had an embarrassing dream in which, after he left Blue Rain and joined Hundred Blossom, Blue Rain fans would treat him like Hundred Blossom fans treated Zhang Jiale. That didn't seem like a pleasant experience either, and everyone could see Zhang Jiale's pain, but Yu Feng was envious. That was exactly what he wanted most: importance!

He knew that his position in Hundred Blossom was still far inferior to Zhang Jiale's, or even the Berserker Sun Zhepings's of the past. But Yu Feng was confident because he had completely regarded himself as a Hundred Blossom person. He believed that his efforts would be seen and appreciated by the Hundred Blossom fans. And now, what he had to do was get through this first hurdle.

Samsara!

The strongest team in the eyes of countless people. In their match, the final online voting rate showed that 81% of people favored Samsara, an overwhelming advantage.

But what was laughable was that in the regular season, in the two teams' matches, Hundred Blossom won 7 to 3 once, and then just lost 4 to 6 this time. Counting the small scores, Hundred Blossom was still leading 11 to 9! This showed that sometimes data really had no reference value. Did anyone think that Hundred Blossom was stronger than Samsara because of the small score advantage in the two matches? No, almost no one. The 19% support rate for Hundred Blossom was probably not because they thought they were stronger than Samsara, but just because they thought they would win.

Victory and defeat, strength and weakness, were never absolute. Strength could increase the chances of winning, but it would never be 100%. As long as it wasn't 100%, there was always a chance of something else happening, even if it was one in ten thousand, it was still a possibility.

And now it seemed that the public believed that Hundred Blossom's win rate was only 19%.

Let this 19% become a reality! Yu Feng took a deep breath, glanced at the time, and it was still early before 8:30 p.m. After walking around the stage again, he was about to leave when he saw Zou Yuan, his Hundred Blossom teammate, also appear in the venue, climbing onto the stage from the steps.

"You're here too?" Yu Feng asked. Although the two were a little far apart, the venue was empty at this time and extremely quiet. Yu Feng raised his voice slightly, and he heard the sound echoing in the venue.

"Yes, I came to mentally prepare myself for the atmosphere in advance," Zou Yuan replied.

"How do you do that?" Yu Feng looked back, the arena was empty and extremely quiet.

"I'll try to imagine it as exaggerated and big as possible, so that when reality comes, I'll think, 'Ha, that's all it is,' so there won't be any pressure," Zou Yuan said.

Yu Feng smiled. He knew that this teammate of his had almost gone crazy because of the pressure suddenly placed on him by the team. This was probably the way he came up with to relieve the pressure of the game at that time!

He looked at Zou Yuan and saw him standing on the edge of the stage, looking at the empty stands, suddenly closing his eyes, spreading his arms, and doing his brain-filling ritual to relieve pressure with a focused expression. Yu Feng didn't speak, just watched quietly, without even making a sound.

After a while, he saw Zou Yuan put down his arms, open his eyes, look at him, and smile.

"All right?"

"All right. Do you want to try it too?" Zou Yuan asked.

"Me? Forget it! This isn't for me. If the final atmosphere on site isn't as exciting as I imagine, I'm afraid I'll be very disappointed," Yu Feng said.

"Haha, you're right, you and I are different!" Zou Yuan said with emotion.

Yes, they were different, not alike at all.

The pressure that once suppressed Zou Yuan to the point of near madness was actually what Yu Feng had always yearned for.

Zou Yuan feared that kind of pressure, while Yu Feng enjoyed it.

So when Yu Feng came to Hundred Blossom, Zou Yuan handed over the captaincy and core position to Yu Feng without any hesitation. After relieving the pressure, Zou Yuan began to work hard to take responsibility and seize the good luck imposed on him. He gradually did it, but he didn't regret the decision he had made. In the end, he couldn't fundamentally change his personality. The captaincy and core position, the things that bore the most pressure, Yu Feng was far more suitable for him. Giving it to him would definitely be better than he could do himself.

How interesting!

Zou Yuan couldn't help but think sometimes. These two completely opposite people actually ended up as teammates and partners. Was it because these two contrasting people were the easiest to complement each other? In this season's Best Combination award, the evaluation they received was not low.

Reproduce Blooming Blood Flowers? (fan hua xue jing)

Zou Yuan thought of the goal the club had set for them at the beginning. Now it seemed that it was only barely completed. Blooming Blood Flowers, a playstyle that required soul communication, not only required skill, but was also closely related to the players' personalities. Unfortunately, Yu Feng was not Sun Zheping, and he was not Zhang Jiale. The two of them could never reproduce the Blooming Blood Flowers of the past. They could only use their own way to create a combination of Berserker and Gunner.

This was probably the so-called changing of the times.

The things of the past would never come again. What was forcibly replicated would always lack the taste of the past. What people missed was sometimes not really Blooming Blood Flowers, but just the feeling of seeing Blooming Blood Flowers for the first time, right? This feeling was really impossible to replicate forever. Because the first time was the first time, and the second time would never be the first time.

In our own way!

Zou Yuan thought secretly. At the beginning, when he took over Zhang Jiale's Dazzling Hundred Blossoms, he was terrified and panicked. The team wanted him to inherit Zhang Jiale's position, so he desperately studied Zhang Jiale's playstyle and even imitated Zhang Jiale's style of doing things. But what happened in the end? He couldn't do it so well and couldn't bear so much pressure. That season, Hundred Blossom was supported by Tang Hao, who was rising strongly, and he, the core, hurriedly completed that season by studying and imitating Zhang Jiale.

So he knew he couldn't go on like that. He needed to find a way to support himself. So he was grateful to Yu Feng for coming to Hundred Blossom at that moment. He carried away the burden that was originally on Zou Yuan's shoulders, allowing him to explore and explore without burden.

Sure enough, he was a good partner! Zou Yuan thought of the complementarity theory he had just thought of and deeply agreed with it.

Then next, it was time to win together!

Zou Yuan was about to say something when he suddenly heard a sound. He and Yu Feng turned their heads together and saw a group of people pouring into the venue from the other entrance.

Samsara!

It was Team Samsara!

All the members of Team Samsara had arrived, and they also saw Yu Feng and Zou Yuan standing on the stage as soon as they came in. Their footsteps did not stop because of this, and they walked straight onto the stage. Yu Feng glanced at the time and knew that Samsara was here to warm up. The visiting team would often walk around and open up in a relatively unfamiliar venue before the game to familiarize themselves with the environment. Now it was the playoffs, so of course Samsara would not miss any details that might be beneficial to the game.

"It's the two stars of Hundred Blossom!" Samsara's captain Zhou Zekai rarely took the initiative to greet others for well-known reasons. It was their vice-captain Jiang Botao who came up to greet Yu Feng and Zou Yuan.

"Well, you're here to warm up!" Yu Feng replied. He was no stranger to Jiang Botao. Most of the players in their generation had a sense of intimacy from walking together during their rookie days. And Samsara was built with players from the fifth, sixth, and seventh seasons, and there were many players from Yu Feng's generation. Like the All-Star level Jiang Botao and Lu Boyuan, they both started playing in the league in the sixth season. And Yu Feng was undoubtedly the most dazzling one among them at the beginning. The best rookie of the same period, he won the championship with Blue Rain in the same year. Yu Feng's rookie season was perfect. Apart from him, only Zhang Xinjie had achieved such a result in his first year in the league.

But even so, it didn't change one thing: this group of players from the sixth season were all supporting roles in their respective teams.

The first one to make a breakthrough was Yu Feng. He left Blue Rain and came to Hundred Blossom, becoming the only first core in the team among this group of players from the sixth season.