Hu Die Lan
Chapter 1542 Unavoidable Consumption
He had foreseen this result long ago. After chasing geniuses for so many years, he knew that these geniuses were not arrogant, lazy rabbits from the Tortoise and the Hare story. They wouldn't give anyone a chance to surpass them easily.
"Can't you let me win even once?" Lin Jingyan said with a helpless, half-joking tone.
"You've won before, haven't you?" Ye Xiu replied, "Fourth season, twenty-first round."
Lin Jingyan was stunned for a moment, and after a long while, he sullenly left a sentence: "I even lost to you in memory."
The first round of the individual competition ended in 1 minute and 48 seconds. Between two players with incredibly rich experience, this could be said to be a very efficient and rapid battle. Ye Xiu finally won with a significant advantage, Jun Mo Xiao still having sixty-three percent of his health.
Lin Jingyan retired from the stage, and the audience was generous with applause.
Losing is losing, but they liked Lin Jingyan's attitude. Although he might not be clever, the Tyranny fans liked the appearance of a man waving his fists with passion and boldness.
"Add oil!!" The arena showed no sign of discouragement from the unfavorable start. Tyranny's fans seemed even more excited than Happy's fans. The electronic screen then displayed the second player to appear for Tyranny: Zhang Jiale, Dazzling Hundred Flowers, another veteran of Tyranny.
Amidst the applause, Zhang Jiale came on stage and met Lin Jingyan halfway.
"Good fight," Zhang Jiale said.
"It's up to you," Lin Jingyan said.
"Watch me take him down," Zhang Jiale said, and the two bumped fists. Zhang Jiale stepped onto the stage.
Soon, the second game began.
"Prepare to die!!"
The moment the game loaded, Zhang Jiale had already released a message in the channel. Following that, a hundred flowers bloomed. Dazzling Hundred Flowers seemed to self-destruct, a burst of light and shadow spreading out across the stage with him at the center.
A strong attack, another strong attack.
Like Lin Jingyan, he attacked directly without any cunning tricks. The wave of flowers swept over, and there was almost no place to stand on the small stage. Zhang Jiale's style of play couldn't be called the style of an individual competition. There was no such thing as ignoring consumption in an individual competition, because your opponent wasn't just the one in front of you. Focusing only on the victory in front of you, and ultimately losing the individual competition, made that victory meaningless.
"Is Tyranny... giving up on the individual competition?" Commentator Pan Lin couldn't help but blurt out.
Li Yibo frowned and didn't say anything.
Consumption. He had noticed this intention to some extent, but he wasn't sure, so he didn't dare to say it directly during the broadcast. But looking at it now, if the intention was consumption, wasn't the price a bit too high? A Launcher was a high-consumption class to begin with, and if Zhang Jiale continued to use the Hundred Flowers style of play so recklessly, even if he defeated Ye Xiu here, how much mana would his Dazzling Hundred Flowers have left to deal with Happy's next player?
Amidst the waves of flowers, Jun Mo Xiao's figure became blurred. This was also a problem for Ye Xiu.
Of course, he had also noticed Tyranny's intention to consume, but with this map selection and these few opponents, the other side wasn't afraid of Ye Xiu noticing, because the formation they had set up was one that Ye Xiu couldn't avoid even if he noticed it. Unless Ye Xiu directly gave up on victory and let Jun Mo Xiao stand there and be beaten, that would be easier. Otherwise, on this small stage in the arena, with opponents who were veterans with experience no less than his, there was no way to launch a careful attack.
That's how it was in the previous game, and that's how it was again in this game.
The Tyranny team didn't hide their intentions at all; they were just that bold. If you don't go all out, you'll be instantly killed here; if you go all out, you'll have to expend a lot of energy. It was true that Tyranny also had veterans, but they were fighting a rotation battle against Ye Xiu.
At the side of the field, on Happy's player bench, after listening to Fang Rui and Wei Chen's analysis, Chen Guo became anxious. But after thinking about it, she suddenly had an idea.
"No matter what, Ye Xiu has already defeated Lin Jingyan, so we're already not at a disadvantage! As long as he just fights casually in this round and creates a little consumption, we'll be in a leading and advantageous situation!" Chen Guo said.
"Oh, really! The boss lady is really calculating," Fang Rui said.
"That's right." Chen Guo was slightly smug, but only for a second, as she realized that Fang Rui was just responding casually, and the surrounding listeners didn't take her "good calculation" seriously.
"Is there anything wrong?" Chen Guo, who was often criticized by Ye Xiu, now had a high level of self-awareness.
However, everyone did not answer immediately; everyone was watching the situation on the field.
Ye Xiu did not retreat, but like in the previous match against Lin Jingyan, he once again boldly went to meet him.
Everyone watched the match solemnly. Chen Guo didn't ask any further about the loopholes in her "good calculation." She believed that Ye Xiu couldn't possibly not have thought of this calculation, but he didn't do it, so this calculation must have had some unfeasible aspects.
The battle was as fierce as the previous one. The two sides understood each other, and the fast-paced and fierce confrontation was not without caution.
The scene was a chaotic mess. If everyone could basically see the moves and techniques clearly in the previous round, then in this round, in Zhang Jiale's full dedication to the Hundred Flowers Light and Shadow, there was almost nothing left for everyone to see clearly.
The only clear thing was the health bars of both characters. Soon, the health of both characters decreased rapidly. However, what was different was that Ye Xiu's Jun Mo Xiao's health was decreasing continuously, indicating that he had never completely gotten rid of the Hundred Flowers style of play's encirclement. And what about Dazzling Hundred Flowers? It was intermittent, but every time it dropped, the magnitude would be relatively large.
Bite down hard!
Happy's players and Happy's fans were desperately hoping for it.
If Jun Mo Xiao could achieve complete close combat, Dazzling Hundred Flowers's fierce offensive could still be cut off. Then, in close combat, the Launcher would be at a disadvantage. During the regular season, Zhang Jiale had been blown up like this before.
But this time, it was obviously not so easy.
Zhang Jiale, going all out, had bet everything!
"Too crazy." Even the spectator Huang Shaotian felt a little frightened.
"With this style of play, not to mention the next player, if Jun Mo Xiao's health is higher than seventy percent, Dazzling Hundred Flowers might not even have enough mana," Yu Wenzhou replied.
Zhang Jiale had let go of everything. What he was staring at was not even a complete Jun Mo Xiao, but only a Jun Mo Xiao with sixty-three percent of his health. All his energy, consciousness, and offensive were all concentrated on this sixty-three percent.
Only in this way could he give Ye Xiu the greatest pressure; only in this way could he prevent Ye Xiu from relaxing in the slightest.
This round could no longer be simply defined by victory or defeat. Tyranny's intention to consume was realized by them in this strong way. What about Ye Xiu? He couldn't avoid consumption, so while being consumed, he was undoubtedly trying his best to fight for the most favorable situation for Happy.
What the result would be could not be seen solely in this round, but in this whole individual competition, or even in the entire series of matches today.
1 minute 24 seconds!
Ye Xiu and Zhang Jiale's game was even faster than the one with Lin Jingyan. In the end, Ye Xiu's Jun Mo Xiao fell first, but Zhang Jiale's Dazzling Hundred Flowers was already like a cripple, with nine percent of his health and two percent of his mana.
Ye Xiu failed to achieve a one-on-two victory, but he was close to it. When he withdrew from the player bench as the loser, Happy's fans quickly applauded him.
This was Tyranny's home stadium, and they also knew Tyranny's hostility towards Ye Xiu. They really couldn't suppress the home team's Tyranny fans, so they could only seize a little gap to let Ye Xiu feel everyone's encouragement.
The result was unexpected. Tyranny's fans didn't immediately boo Ye Xiu, who had been defeated.
"This annoying guy, occasionally he can be quite decent!" On Tyranny's player bench, they were discussing. Ye Xiu's style when facing a strong attack today was exactly what Tyranny's heroes liked. So even though they were longtime enemies, they hesitated slightly at this time.
"Considering his performance today was okay, let's boo him a little less?" Someone suggested.
So the booing still sounded, lightly, echoing in Tyranny's arena.
"What's going on?" Ye Xiu felt uncomfortable. When he walked off the stage, he looked around, and Tyranny's fans were watching him, booing very softly.
"Know you're afraid now, right!" Ye Xiu said to the audience relatively close to him.
"Damn it!" The audience in close proximity heard it, and the booing immediately became loud, and the reason quickly spread throughout the arena.
"Damn it, he's actually getting smug!" Tyranny's fan leader, who was also their guild leader in the Glory online game, Jiang You, immediately had the urge to flip the table.
"Boo him! Boo him hard!" Jiang You roared.
The booing sounded loudly again, interspersed with shouts of "Kill him!" and the like.
Ye Xiu remained calm as always. The next player from Happy's player bench did not have any emotional fluctuations due to the ever-changing booing from Tyranny's fans.
The second player to appear for Happy was Mo Fan, who was now an important chess piece in Happy's individual competition.
"Add oil," Ye Xiu said as he passed by.
Mo Fan didn't stop walking, nodded, and walked over.
Ye Xiu returned to the player bench, under everyone's gaze.
"Almost a one-on-two," Ye Xiu said with a smile.
Chen Guo immediately saw the fatigue behind Ye Xiu's smile, the fatigue that could no longer be concealed.
Chen Guo had seen this kind of appearance in the regular season, against Howling, in that one-on-one match with Tang Hao.
And today, Ye Xiu had faced two players in a row, and they were still veterans like Lin Jingyan and Zhang Jiale. Since they had an intention, they naturally knew very well how to fight in a way that would create the most consumption, and it was consumption that Ye Xiu could not escape.
After two rounds of the individual competition, Ye Xiu left the stage, Tyranny left the stage with one player, leaving a Dazzling Hundred Flowers that was like a cripple, but Chen Guo had an ominous premonition in her heart.
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