Chapter 1229 Exchange

On the competition stage, the team competition players from Happy and Blue Rain lined up and quickly began shaking hands and exchanging greetings.

"Not scared yet?" Ye Xiu asked with a smile while shaking Yu Wenzhou's hand.

"Why be scared?" Huang Shaotian shouted from the side, looking energetic, showing that he hadn't been affected by the loss in the previous match at all.

"Why do you always answer so quickly!" Ye Xiu said with a helpless expression, then came over to shake Huang Shaotian's hand.

"You'll know how powerful I am soon," Huang Shaotian said.

"Didn't you already know how powerful we are?" Su Mucheng, following behind Ye Xiu, shook Huang Shaotian's hand and replied. Her face had a cunning smile, clearly showing that she had every right to say that after defeating Huang Shaotian, even if they hadn't fought with equal health.

"The chance for revenge came so quickly today!" Huang Shaotian said with emotion.

"Aren't match arrangements all like this? So sensitive. You get revenge often, right?" Fang Rui, the third Happy player to shake hands with Huang Shaotian, replied.

"What's going on? A gauntlet match?" Huang Shaotian raged. What was with these Happy guys, squeezing him one after another? However, the Blue Rain players were all snickering on the side, showing no intention of coming up to help him and forming a team battle in trash talk.

"Still so irritable! You were like this when we were breaking dungeon records. No wonder you're a Leo," Baozi, the fourth Happy player to shake hands, said. Back when they were breaking dungeon records, he didn't know anything about the pro scene, so naturally, he didn't know how terrifying the Liumu in their team was. But later, after hearing everyone talk about it, he finally understood. Now, shaking hands with Huang Shaotian, he even tried to reminisce about old times, causing the Blue Rain players to look at him in surprise.

Breaking dungeon records? What's that about? The Blue Rain players clearly had such doubts in their eyes.

"Damn it, you brat, wait until I kill you in a bit!" Huang Shaotian shouted.

"You'll have to kill me first," An Wenyi, Happy's fifth player and their healer, shook Huang Shaotian's hand, and those words couldn't have been more appropriate. With the healer standing, it really wasn't easy to kill a certain player in a team competition.

"Even if he falls, I'm still here!" Before Huang Shaotian could even retort, Happy's finisher had already stepped up. It was none other than Tang Rou, the girl who liked to rush forward and end things quickly.

"You girls!" After Tang Rou, Happy finally had no one else. Huang Shaotian reacted, jumping up and cursing at the backs of the six people who had already walked past him. The other Blue Rain players were all laughing like crazy.

"Even I couldn't stand that, Huang Shao!" Zheng Xuan, the super unmotivated player, appeared and added another blow.

Huang Shaotian gritted his teeth.

"Prepare for the match!" Yu Wenzhou said with a smile. He had just been watching and hadn't said anything. Naturally, he knew that these taunts wouldn't really provoke Huang Shaotian. In the realm of trash talk, Huang Shaotian often flew into a rage, but he had never lost his judgment due to trash talk provocation. Even if he took action because of it, it would definitely be done strategically. The opportunities he chose were always precise and appropriate.

"Looking forward to your performance!" Seeing that the Blue Rain team was about to leave, Ye Xiu shouted in that direction. Huang Shaotian quickly turned around and quickly gave him the middle finger.

The two teams then entered the player booths. Soon after, the referee announced that the match had officially begun, and the map and characters began to load.

Map: Green Wilderness.

This was a comprehensive map, shaped like a rhombus pointing in the four cardinal directions. Its unique feature was that there were nine wind eyes evenly distributed across the map. The wind eyes would randomly generate different winds, such as whirlwinds, gales, and cold winds, which would have different effects on the characters in the wind, enough to affect the balance of a battle.

This type of map with supplementary effects would be more interesting for players, but it would be more difficult and complex for professional players. The home team would mostly practice special tactics based on the map's characteristics that couldn't be used on other maps, making it more difficult for the away team to deal with.

The commentators Pan Lin and Li Yibo quickly analyzed the situation of Green Wilderness. The loading was then completed, and the spawns were still the standard north-south spawns. Happy spawned in the north this round, and Blue Rain spawned in the south. As soon as the loading was completed, the Blue Rain team immediately set off in formation. As for Happy? As the away team, they were obviously much more hesitant.

"Needless to say about Blue Rain, but for Happy, if they're not familiar with this map, they must first figure out the locations of the nine wind eyes. If I remember correctly, Green Wilderness should be a new map from last year. Even someone as experienced as Ye Xiu probably doesn't have much experience with this map," the guest commentator Li Yibo said during the broadcast.

"Blue Rain's map selection is probably to bypass Ye Xiu's terrifying experience," Pan Lin said.

"Yes, although Blue Rain lost the individual competition, they really made the most of their home-court map advantage. I believe they will also consider many factors when selecting the map for the team competition," Li Yibo said.

"Now Blue Rain is cutting straight through the center. Huang Shaotian's Troubling Rain is in the team, not moving solo. Happy is detouring in a northeast direction, so it seems they really want to find the wind eyes first," Pan Lin said.

As he spoke, the broadcast showed a miniature simulation of the map with the locations of the nine wind eyes clearly marked. Then, the positions of the Happy team were added.

"Happy's movement direction… seems very clear!" Pan Lin said, looking at Happy's movement direction on the miniature map.

"It seems they know the locations of the nine wind eyes. It's not too surprising. Perhaps Happy paid attention to this map and memorized this key point," Li Yibo said.

"Could it be that Happy is also very familiar with this map?" Pan Lin said.

"This…" Li Yibo wasn't sure. Blue Rain dared to choose this map, so the known information must indicate that Happy had never used this map. Could this also be one of Happy's backup maps that they had practiced and prepared to use? The probability of this happening was extremely low. If it really happened, Blue Rain's bad luck would be worth writing about.

The entire Happy team advanced. Before long, the wind in front of them picked up greatly. After the stadium's holographic projection located this area, the entire venue was filled with whistling wind, suppressing all other sounds.

However, despite the loud wind, the characters within it barely had their hair moving.

This was one of the nine strange winds, the Gale. The effect of the wind was sound. In the environment of the Gale, don't expect to rely on hearing to make any judgments.

At this time, it was impossible for the two sides to make contact, so Happy naturally didn't need to worry about the effects of the Gale. They walked as if they were strolling in a breeze. However, at this moment, Happy had already changed direction and was heading to another location.

Now it could be 100% confirmed that Happy knew the locations of the wind eyes. So what they needed to do now was to figure out what kind of wind each wind eye produced, because that was completely random. Just like Blue Rain, their initial straight cut wasn't to cut straight to the center to find their opponents and decide the victory. Their straight-cut route was also heading for a wind eye. After detecting what kind of wind was there, they immediately and decisively headed for another location.

The two sides had the same goal, but their routes were different, but both were starting from the two spawn points, using the simplest and most efficient routes.

Pan Lin and Li Yibo also found a lot of information at this time. On the Green Wilderness map, the efficient routes for exploring the wind eyes at the north and south spawn points were available to ordinary players. And at this time, Happy and Blue Rain didn't use anything new, but rather the most common and practical routes.

But if both sides adopted this method…

The simulation diagram showed the north and south routes under these two strategy methods. It could be clearly seen that after exploring four wind eyes each, the two sides would meet in the center of the map.

The subsequent development of the match really did develop in this direction.

The Blue Rain team explored the south, southwest, west, and northwest wind eye areas, then cut to the center. Happy, on the other hand, explored the northeast, east, southeast, and south points, then cut to the center…

Because both sides knew the specific locations of the wind eyes, they would basically change direction after seeing what kind of wind it was. In the end, the two routes converged in the center…

"Wouldn't the two teams have anticipated this?" Pan Lin guessed. Since they were using the popular strategy route, shouldn't they have thought that the other side might also be so simple?

As soon as Pan Lin finished speaking, changes began to occur on Blue Rain's side. While gradually approaching the central wind eye, the characters' positions gradually became more sophisticated, forming an offensive and defensive formation. At the same time, Happy also made adjustments. From the direction of their formation, it was clear that they were facing the direction that Blue Rain was approaching from.

"Although they've both reached this point, the two sides may not necessarily make contact," Li Yibo suddenly said.

"Oh?"

"The simulation diagram connects the wind eyes together, but in fact, neither side has actually reached the wind eye locations. They just enter the edge of the wind eye's wind and then head in the next direction after figuring out what kind of wind it is. That's why Happy cut to the center after reaching the southern area, because it's faster that way. Otherwise, if starting from the southern spawn point, after detecting the wind in this area, they would head in a southwest direction."

"Oh oh…" Pan Lin thought for a moment before understanding what Li Yibo meant.

"However, it's also possible that the wind at the central wind eye will change more," Li Yibo said.

"Oh?" Pan Lin was stunned again, and then reacted.

At this time, the two teams had each explored four wind eyes, leaving five unknown. But as the audience, they had a double share of the results, and seven of the known wind eyes were already known. So, using the process of elimination, the possible wind at the central wind eye could be deduced. Li Yibo probably estimated the possible changes based on these two possibilities.

Just then, the wind in the center was also detected by both teams.

Gale!

The strongest of the nine winds, the Gale, was so strong that it would create resistance against characters' bodies in the wind. Conversely, in the downwind direction, it would be a pushing force.

At this time? Blue Rain, coming from the northwest, was in the downwind position.

Downwind charge!

The Blue Rain team didn't change direction. They suddenly rushed into the wind, using the wind to charge out at a speed impossible on ordinary maps.