Chapter 1 The Outcome

The outcome of the match was already decided. But for a playoff match venue, the Xiaoshan Stadium seemed a little deserted. Too many people hadn't recovered. This was Xingxin's home court, and Xingxin's sudden reversal of the situation to achieve a great victory should have driven them completely crazy, but the way it happened had them still savoring the moment.

It wasn't until the two teams finished their post-match exchanges and began to express their gratitude to the audience that many people woke up as if from a dream.

They won!

They won, truly and certainly won.

Ooooh!

Cheers suddenly erupted, and the audience's emotional climax was delayed for so long.

Yu Wenzhou, sitting in front of the TV, received a call from Huang Shaotian, but when he answered, all he heard was noise, clearly from the scene. Huang Shaotian also came to his senses at this moment, awakening with the rest of the audience.

"So exhilarating!!!" Yu Wenzhou heard Huang Shaotian roar on the other end.

"Hehe," Yu Wenzhou laughed.

"How did you guys pull that off, huh?" Huang Shaotian continued to roar.

"Who knows?" Yu Wenzhou said.

Yes! Who would know the answer to that question?

After paying their respects to the audience, the two teams left the stage and returned to the rest area, where they would rest briefly before attending the post-match press conference.

The Ba Tu team, who lost the match, attended first, with captain Han Wenqing and vice-captains Zhang Xinjie and Zhang Jiale. As soon as they arrived on stage, they saw that the reporters below were already impatient. Sure enough, as soon as the conference began, the first reporter to stand up and ask a question didn't even bother with the usual words of consolation for the losers, but went straight to asking what they thought of today's match.

It was a very formulaic question, but in today's match, everyone felt that the question was particularly meaningful and to the point.

"Very unexpected," Han Wenqing replied.

Only four words? The reporters were clearly very dissatisfied.

"Can you say a little more?" someone requested.

"Xingxin's arrangement in the team competition was indeed unprecedented, beyond imagination, and we completely overlooked it," Ba Tu's vice-captain Zhang Xinjie said, adding a few more words.

Although he was known for his low error rate, it wasn't like he never made mistakes, and he himself never treated it as his label, never shy about mentioning his mistakes. He attributed this episode in the team competition to "oversight," but even if he defined it that way himself, few outsiders would think so. That scene surprised and shocked the entire Glory world; it wouldn't be fair to blame the Ba Tu team for not having foreseen it.

The reporters certainly didn't pursue the point. Immediately afterward, one of them asked, "Will this loss have any impact on Ba Tu's next match?"

"I don't think so," Zhang Xinjie said with his usual air of certainty. "Such a large-scale and accurate plan must require a lot of pre-match preparation. The next match is at our home court, Ba Tu's home court."

"Two matches," Han Wenqing added from the side.

Zhang Xinjie smiled. Han Wenqing's saying "two matches" was equivalent to announcing that the next match would be a victory for Ba Tu, which was of course what Zhang Xinjie also hoped for, but he obviously wouldn't make such a statement without being certain, and he also had to correct the loophole in Han Wenqing's statement.

"The next match is at our home court, Ba Tu's home court, and if we win..."

"Don't 'if,' it's definitely our victory, okay? The next match and the one after that will both be ours," Zhang Jiale interrupted ruthlessly.

Zhang Xinjie was helpless, but the reporters were all looking at him, obviously still wanting to hear him finish what he had been saying. So Zhang Xinjie didn't bother to emphasize his "if," but instead said, "If there is a third match, the randomly generated map will not allow Xingxin to deploy this kind of strategy, so we don't need to worry about today's situation in the next match."

Zhang Jiale clicked his tongue, obviously dissatisfied with Zhang Xinjie's use of "if" for the third match.

Zhang Xinjie's analysis was rational and rigorous. Based on this analysis, everyone realized that although Xingxin's performance in this match was shocking, it only won them this round of the competition, and had no strategic impact on the next match. Ba Tu only needed to adjust their mindset and not let this loss have a psychological impact.

And was that difficult for the Ba Tu team? They were all veterans who had experienced hundreds of battles. With Zhang Xinjie's analysis, this was just an ordinary away loss, not enough to affect their morale.

Ba Tu's emotions were quite stable. As the backdrop in this shocking event, they seemed to have adjusted their mindset after the match. Their focus was already on the next round, or even the round after that. The things Xingxin had done in this match would not become a mental burden for them.

The losing team's press conference didn't give anyone a sense of loss or depression. This was Ba Tu; nothing could stop them from striding forward with their chests held high.

The three people who attended the press conference then returned to the rest area, and everyone packed up their things. They could leave the arena on their own. The television in the rest area showed the footage of Xingxin's press conference that followed. No one deliberately avoided it; everyone would glance at it from time to time to hear what Xingxin had to say.

Xingxin's representatives at the press conference were Ye Xiu, Fang Rui, and Luo Ji. There was no need to say who today's star would be. As soon as the three of them came out, the flashes went off non-stop. Eighty percent of them wanted to capture Luo Ji's special features. Luo Ji was almost blinded at the time; he had never experienced such treatment.

"Congratulations to Xingxin on their three-game winning streak in the playoffs." Interviews with the winning side were always more pleasant, relaxed, and natural. In general, the winning team was willing to chat more, so the reporters didn't seem particularly anxious.

"Following the last cooperative battle where Huang Shaotian of Blue Rain was seriously injured by a tree, Xingxin once again used the same point!" As soon as the topic was opened, it was about this.

"Haha, that's completely different. Huang Shaotian brought that on himself," Ye Xiu said.

"Damn it!" Yu Wenzhou, watching TV, received a text message from Huang Shaotian, two in a row. First, he cursed, and then another one: I must kill this guy. Do you have any assassins to recommend?

Yu Wenzhou smiled and ignored him, while the scene was already laughing, and Yu Wenzhou could understand Huang Shaotian's embarrassment at this time.

"So today was specially arranged by Xingxin?" a reporter continued.

"Of course," Ye Xiu said.

"Can you talk about how this was done? You must have done a lot of preparation before the match, right?" The reporter threw out the question they were most concerned about, and all eyes were focused on Luo Ji.

But unexpectedly, Ye Xiu answered the question first: "No need, our player has a particularly keen intuition for terrain. He just needs to take a look to know what to do."

"What?" All the reporters were stunned, and the press conference was silent for a moment.

Luo Ji sweated, Luo Ji waterfall sweat, Luo Ji Iguazu waterfall sweat.

Are you really going to say that!

Luo Ji secretly glanced at Ye Xiu, seeing a particularly calm and honest look.

Just take a look and know what to do? Where did I get this ghostly ability? To accurately create this destruction, he had used so many kilograms of scratch paper for writing and calculation, and Guan Rongfei also provided a lot of data information about various materials in the game. This was a tactic that had been prepared for a long time. It was too wasteful to use in the regular season, so it was meant to play a decisive role in the key elimination matches of the playoffs.

Before coming to the press conference, Ye Xiu had told him to say this and that, and he thought Ye Xiu was joking! But now, he saw that Ye Xiu was lying so easily and naturally to so many media reporters.

"You can do it casually? What kind of ability is this!" The reporters came back to their senses and immediately paid more attention to Luo Ji, and even called him "you." Luo Ji was even more flustered. Of course, he could only make the best of a bad situation and vaguely made up, "Uh, I've always been interested in Glory terrain, so I probably have some experience, and some intuition. That's probably how it is."

The reporters were too good at observing words and expressions. Ye Xiu was very calm, but this Luo Ji, after all, was young and seemed a little flustered. But then again, a rookie, suddenly surrounded like a star, seemed normal to be a little flustered. Could this...could this be true?

The reporters were now skeptical, but Yu Wenzhou in front of the TV was already happy. How could this be possible? This sounded like a scam, right? Would there be any idiots who really believed it!

In the away team's rest area, the Ba Tu team had not yet left. When they heard this, the rest area suddenly became quiet. Song Qiying immediately walked to Zhang Xinjie and said, "Vice-captain, Senior Ye Xiu just said that these were not prepared in advance, but only temporarily planned, so they would have this ability even if they fought away."

"Idiot, how can you believe that? It's just Ye Xiu showing off," Zhang Jiale immediately scolded Song Qiying.

"Is that so?" Song Qiying was a little confused and continued to watch TV, hearing Luo Ji's next remarks.

"Experience and intuition?" Song Qiying muttered, secretly glanced at Zhang Jiale.

"Look at him, that's how Ye Xiu taught him to say it!" Zhang Jiale said to Song Qiying.

Song Qiying didn't say anything, looking at Zhang Xinjie.

"Is it possible to have such experience and intuition?" Zhang Xinjie said.

"Are you an idiot too?" Zhang Jiale was speechless.

"There is seriously insufficient information in this regard, perhaps we need to re-evaluate," Zhang Xinjie said.