Chapter 26 July 26th

Munich, Allianz Arena.

There were two winner's bracket promotion matches in the morning, and several round-robin matches for 5th, 6th, and 7th places in the afternoon to determine the final rankings.

The match between Huaxia's Capital Star Warriors and Finland's Blizzard Legion was scheduled for the second match of the morning.

At this time, the four members of Capital Star Warriors were sitting in the locker room, watching the television hanging on the wall.

Han Jiangxue, Gu Shian, and Jiang Xiao were watching quite intently, but Xia Yan...

Xia Yan was immersed in her own world, looking down at her phone.

Of course, such an assessment was incorrect for her; she was looking at her phone, repeatedly watching her own match recordings, watching herself display her divine power on the green field!

Perhaps there was some self-satisfaction involved, but more so, she was watching her own combat movements and choices.

Since Jiang Xiao had given her suggestions yesterday, she had begun to repeatedly watch her match recordings after advancing to the Star Sea stage in the evening.

Jiang Xiao's words were very straightforward: You are the king of the Star Sea stage, your physical attributes crush everyone, especially after reaching the Star Sea stage, the degree of physical development is even higher.

As a melee combatant, you have already surpassed the contemporary Star Sea-stage mages.

Moreover, your Great Sword Star Map has allowed you to relive, supplement, and systematically organize Great Sword techniques, your combat skills are several levels higher than your peers.

What's more, you can already transform stars into weapons.

So on the field, it's only natural for you to win, but the question is, how did you win?

Are your every choice correct? Do you still retain the inertial thinking and combat habits from Star River versus Star River matches?

Are these choices, these movements, redundant for a Star Sea king facing Star River contestants?

In terms of "software," Xia Yan especially admired Jiang Xiao.

This admiration wasn't based on Jiang Xiao's words, but rather Xia Yan's repeated firsthand experiences watching Jiang Xiao's matches, and repeatedly experiencing missions with Jiang Xiao, which she had personally concluded.

What is software?

It's combat IQ, combat literacy, and combat skills; it's mindset, quality, personality, and a series of other factors.

Since Jiang Xiao had raised this question to her, Xia Yan, although grumbling, began her self-examination.

Combat-types and mage-types are different; combat-types emphasize the use of the body more. What Han Jiangxue might not need to do much homework on, Xia Yan absolutely must do.

...

"Beep beep!" As the referee blew the whistle on the television screen, the first round of the match finally ended.

In the end,

The Sharpest Arrow versus the Strongest Shield ended with the "Arrow" winning the match.

The equestrian archer corps from the Republic of Xiya cleverly combined Star Techniques and archery skills to defeat the shield-hammer combination from the host country of the Willpower Nation.

Han Jiangxue watched the screen and said softly, "Compared to the Great Meng Empire's equestrian archers, how are Xiya's equestrian archers?"

Jiang Xiao thought for a moment and said, "Both have strong bows and fine steeds, but the styles are too different. The country of Xiya... lacks some sharpness and wildness, has more rules, and pays more attention to Star Techniques. Also..."

Han Jiangxue shifted her gaze from the radiant female equestrian archer and turned to look at Jiang Xiao, saying, "Hmm?"

Jiang Xiao said with some distaste, "These Xiya people have such good looks, they all look like elves, I thought Xiya had dragged in four supermodels to walk the runway, or film yogurt commercials."

Han Jiangxue: "..."

Gu Shian: "..."

Xia Yan: "Pfft... haha..."

Jiang Xiao sighed and said, "The Great Meng's contestants are more pleasing to the eye. Look at that Hairigu, rough and unrestrained, that's what a fighter should look like."

Gu Shian subconsciously touched his chin, feeling the stubble that hadn't been completely shaved off.

Jiang Xiao was stunned for a moment, looked at Gu Shian's actions, and quickly said, "I'm not complimenting you, okay!"

"Hehe." Gu Shian grinned, noncommittal.

Jiang Xiao looked at Gu Shian's smug look and couldn't help but say, "You should think about how to thaw out when facing the Blizzard Legion later, my Pure Tears can't unfreeze ice seals."

Gu Shian didn't care at all, tilted his head and gestured in Han Jiangxue's direction, saying, "The commander has plenty of fire-type Star Techniques."

Jiang Xiao was about to say something, but thought of the sleet that was very likely to occur later, and couldn't help but have a headache.

Endurance is proper endurance,

And quality is proper Star power quality.

But Jiang Xiao's various senses were not weakened or eliminated; his body was even more sensitive.

That "icy rain" later would probably freeze Jiang Xiao to shivering again.

Alas, skill points are not so easy to obtain these days!

To desperately endure an icy rain, one only gets a hundred skill points. I currently have four pets, each a bottomless pit, how the hell will I ever get to the end of this...

Thinking about it, Jiang Xiao couldn't help but shiver.

"What's wrong?" Han Jiangxue grabbed Jiang Xiao's arm, exerting a little force, her face full of concern.

She obviously misunderstood, thinking that something had happened to Jiang Xiao's other decoys.

"Ah, it's nothing, it's nothing, I'm just shaking myself, energizing myself..." As he spoke, Jiang Xiao's eyes lit up, and he suddenly said, "Let's change tactics."

In a word, Xia Yan in the back was unhappy; she had been looking down at her phone, and now she looked up, looking at Jiang Xiao with a wary expression, "What tactics?"

Jiang Xiao said, "If there are no accidents, there will definitely be snow and wind all over the sky later, let's play something big, Little Jiangxue, you directly open the Heavenly Meteorite Fall!"

Xia Yan pouted and said, "Stinky Pipipi, you're a liar, you said the main offensive point was me."

Jiang Xiao propped himself up on the stool with one hand, flipped backward, leaned against the locker door, and sat down next to Xia Yan with his butt, saying, "You can slaughter in the wind, snow, and meteorites, you open the Star Power Body, transform stars into weapons, summon a great sword, covered in scorching flames, and I'll put a Lingering Light halo on you!"

Xia Yan said, "Didn't you tell me to..."

"You think about the scene I just described first." Jiang Xiao directly interrupted Xia Yan, saying, "You savor it, you savor it carefully!"

Slowly, Xia Yan's eyes blurred, as if she already had a picture in her mind.

Jiang Xiao said excitedly, "Every frame is a wallpaper! From now on, thousands upon thousands of Huaxia netizens, when they turn on their computers, when they turn on their phones, that will be Yan Shen's heroic posture!"

Xia Yan seemed to really imagine the exquisite picture, her small mouth slightly open: "Wow..."

Jiang Xiao turned to look at Han Jiangxue, saying, "How is it?"

Han Jiangxue was not very satisfied, saying, "It's not good to change tactics before the match."

Jiang Xiao said, "I think it's quite good, ace versus ace, all are large-scale outputs! Let us perform a disaster movie from nature for the people of the world."

Han Jiangxue gave Jiang Xiao an angry look, but asked Xia Yan, "Xia Yan?"

Xia Yan nodded subconsciously, saying, "Okay, okay."

Han Jiangxue looked at Gu Shian again, raising her eyebrows slightly.

Gu Shian pinched his thumb and forefinger together, put them to the corner of his mouth, and made a zipping motion, pulling from one corner of his mouth to the other.

Whatever you say is right!

I'll just watch, not speak...

Over there, Xia Yan also reacted, looking at Han Jiangxue with a confused expression, saying, "What's the matter? What did I just promise you?"

Jiang Xiao said, "You agreed without hearing clearly?"

Xia Yan scratched her head embarrassedly, saying, "I'm used to it, heh heh, conditioned reflex, conditioned reflex..."

Jiang Xiao said, "Little Jiangxue said you're not the main offensive point in this match, you can just continue to be in a daze after you get on the field."

Xia Yan's face turned anxious: "Don't, I still want to experiment, I found a lot of unnecessary movements..."

...

Warm-up time!

With the reminders from the coaching staff, the four-member group from the Capital stood up one after another, followed the coaches out of the locker room, and walked along the player tunnel towards the green field.

"The long-awaited second match has finally arrived!" Yu Feibi excitedly began to broadcast.

In the previous match, Capital Star Warriors had a bye, which suffocated Yu Feibi, but in the previous round there was a match for Xiangnan Military Academy, and Yu Feibi poured all his passion onto the heads of the Xiangnan soldiers.

If you didn't watch the television and only listened to his live broadcast, you might even think that Xiangnan Military Academy had won the previous match...

Jing Xin Yue's gentle voice also came out: "Yesterday in the match next door, Jiang Xiaopi's match had some accidents, he posted on Weibo yesterday, it should be nothing serious, now look at his appearance on stage..."

Yu Feibi waved his big hand, high-spirited: "No problem! Jiang Xiaopi is full of energy and high fighting spirit! Look at this warm-up movement of shaking his head, wow, relaxed and comfortable, like a leisurely stroll..."

Jing Xin Yue was a little dumbfounded, and quickly interrupted, afraid that before the match even started, Yu Feibi would recite a few more lines of poetry.

Jing Xin Yue: "Hey, there are some situations on the sidelines, the Blizzard Legion leader from Finland is walking towards the Huaxia team."

The four-member group from Capital Star Warriors was still warming up, Gu Shian, as the great shield, naturally stood on the far right of the group, which was the direction the Finnish captain was coming from.

"Kimi Mannerheim." A tall young man with a head full of blond hair walked over and extended his right hand to Gu Shian.

This was a very typical Nordic race, real blond hair and blue eyes, the hair wasn't dyed, the eyes weren't wearing colored contact lenses, unlike those Hollywood stars who catered to the public's taste.

Kimi had a friendly smile on his face, his demeanor was elegant and polite, his handsome face and sunny temperament made it easy to be liked.

Gu Shian's powerful big hand grasped it: "Gu Shian."

Kimi lifted up the collar of his national team uniform with one hand, covering his mouth, and whispered, "We know our strength, but now we are already in the final four, and we are no longer fighting for ourselves, we need to deliver an answer to many people.

So, directly admitting defeat is impossible, but, we also have self-awareness, so..."

As he spoke, Kimi lowered his collar and smiled at Gu Shian.

Gu Shian was silent for a long time, speaking with that characteristic Chinese English accent, "I, don't understand English."

Kimi: "..."

Damn it, you don't understand and you're communicating with me for so long?

But Kimi's stiff expression disappeared in an instant, and a smile bloomed again, pointing in Jiang Xiao's direction with his finger, looking at Gu Shian with a look of inquiry, seemingly asking if he could go and communicate with him.

Gu Shian shrugged his shoulders and continued to bend down, doing a lunge to stretch his legs.

Jiang Xiao sat on the ground, looking up at Kimi with a smile, and extended his right fist.

Although the two had whispered to each other just now, judging from the other's expression and state, Jiang Xiao had guessed the general idea.

Kimi also nodded with a smile, bent down, bumped fists with Jiang Xiao, and squatted down.

Kimi covered his mouth and said something, Jiang Xiao nodded repeatedly, and watched Kimi leave.

After the other party left, Jiang Xiao laughed, looked at Gu Shian, and said, "Shian, you weren't recommended either, you got into Capital Star Warriors through your own exams, don't understand English?"

Gu Shian "hmph"ed and said, "Face-to-face communication is not the same as taking a test."

Jiang Xiao was shocked and quickly said, "Cover your mouth before you speak!"

"Hehe..." Xia Yan couldn't help but laugh, looking at Jiang Xiao while lifting her legs high, saying, "Aren't you quite mischievous? There are still things you dare not say? I didn't realize you were so aware."

Jiang Xiao leaned back, saying, "What is called an international superstar?"

Xia Yan: "..."

Jiang Xiao opened his legs wide, sat on the ground, looking up at Xia Yan: "Why do I have 40 million Huaxia fans on Weibo, and you only have a million Huaxia fans?"

Xia Yan curled her lips: "Tch."

Jiang Xiao lowered his head, his fingers pinching the soft green grass, silent for a long time, and murmured softly, "Maybe, it's because of beauty."

Xia Yan walked over, knelt in front of Jiang Xiao, held his face in her hands, and lifted up his short buzz-cut head.

She said softly, "This is the World Cup semi-final, the whole world is watching us, please be sober."

Jiang Xiao: "Hmm?"

Xia Yan: "Don't make me slap you."

Jiang Xiao: "..."