Chapter 1 Dinner News

At dinner time, in the restaurant on the first floor of the hotel, the news broadcast from Huaxia came from the television hanging on the wall:

"Hello, viewers, welcome to the special program *Star Martial World Cup*."

"As of now, all the third-round matches of the Star Martial World Cup team competition and the individual competition have ended. In the individual competition that ended yesterday, the Huaxia athletes achieved a record of 7 wins and 2 losses, with a total of 7 players advancing, entering the fourth round strongly!"

"In the World Cup team competition that just ended today, the three Huaxia teams achieved excellent results with three wins in three battles!"

"In the World Cup individual competition that ended yesterday, Wu Haoyang, a contestant nicknamed 'Second Master' by Huaxia audiences, took the lead from the start."

"One slash, Flying Dragon in the Sky, tore through the opponent's defense; one slash, Splitting Mount Hua, felled the Pampa Eagle!"

"Poisonous Milk Disciple, Yi Qingchen, took 2 minutes and 37 seconds, relying on his superb giant blade skills and explosive physical fitness, to comprehensively crush the Australian Sea Lion and advance strongly to the fourth round!"

"Jiang Xiaopi, a contestant nicknamed Little Wen Hou by the vast number of netizens, lived up to his name of bravery! It can be said that his spirit soared to the heavens, and his halberd moved mountains and rivers!"

"In just 7 seconds from the start, with 9 thrusts of his halberd, he shattered the defense of the American Captain, Tornado, presenting the world with a near-perfect promotion match!"

"Jiang Xiaopi has also created the shortest match record in a single game in the World Cup individual competition in history!"

"Looking at this World Cup, Jiang Xiaopi's influence is simply immeasurable! Since winning the championship with a giant blade in the last World Cup, a large number of star martial artists with excellent combat skills have sprung up like mushrooms after rain..."

"Shh~" As the host broadcast, whistles and applause sounded in the restaurant.

Jiang Xiao was eating donkey meat burgers with his head down. He really didn't expect to be able to drink donkey meat soup and eat donkey meat burgers in this foreign country. The most important thing was, wasn't it quite authentic?

What kind of immortal chef did this hotel hire? Jiang Xiao wasn't even sure if the country of Yi had donkeys as a species...

Jiang Xiao heard the whistles and applause of his companions, and he couldn't help but make a gesture.

He saw Jiang Xiao holding a donkey meat burger in his left hand and continuing to eat with his head down, but he raised his right hand high, clenched it into a fist, and shouted vaguely, "Oli gei!!!"

"Oh! Oh! Oh!"

"Haha~" A burst of laughter came.

The team competition was over, and all the team members present had advanced, and everyone was in a very relaxed mood.

The three Huaxia legions have all advanced to the top 28, which is a very good result.

However, as the rounds get higher and higher, people's opponents are getting stronger and stronger, and the chances of drawing teammates are also getting higher and higher, which is also unavoidable.

As the host broadcasted the overall broadcast of the third round of the World Cup, Jiang Xiao also heard the broadcast of his team's match:

"In the third round of the team competition, the Huaxia No. 1 seed team encountered the Kimchi Country team, and some accidents also occurred on the field.

The national team members of the Kimchi Republic actually had infighting on the field. The French and medical support players actually cursed at each other in front of the people of the world. Such a scene was ridiculously funny."

"Pfft... cough cough." Xia Yan coughed for a while, thankfully she only took a small sip of donkey meat soup...

Han Jiangxue looked at Xia Yan with a reproachful expression, really not knowing what to say to her.

She was clearly already a Star Sea Overlord, but she was still so flustered, without the demeanor of a master at all.

Jiang Xiao was amused, and gave Xia Yan a thumbs up, saying, "Truly hilarious!"

Xia Yan wiped her mouth with a napkin, looking at the TV screen in disbelief, and said, "The CCTV host would actually say such a thing? How down-to-earth?"

"Eat quickly, go back to wash up and sleep." Han Jiangxue said softly.

"Oh." Xia Yan pouted and continued to listen to the news broadcast.

...

The next day, early in the morning, Jiang Xiao and his teammates had breakfast, and escorted by Teacher Chen Dapang, they rushed to the airport and boarded the plane.

Due to the big background of this World Cup, the country of Yi, the host, has compressed the schedule very tightly.

If according to the previous World Cup schedule, at this time, the teams or individuals who have advanced in the team competition and the individual competition should be competing once every 5 days, because the loser group will also start the ranking competition to determine the final ranking.

But this session is different. The country of Yi is frantically compressing the schedule, and has even put the loser group's competition on the same day as the advancing group's competition. Those loser group teams' countries can broadcast or not, and your audience can watch or not. Anyway, I just won't extend the schedule. One battle every three days, unshakable!

It is said that the organizers have released news and have discussed with the official Star Martial World Cup. When the team competition enters the fourth round and the individual competition enters the sixth round, a special ranking competition day will be arranged for the loser group. At that time, for the advancing people, it will be one battle every 5 days.

This so-called Doomsday World Cup is indeed full of situations.

On the plane, Jiang Xiao habitually put down the small table, took out his earphones, connected to wifi, and turned on his mobile phone live broadcast.

"Eh? Friend, we meet again?" A slightly strange-toned English came.

Jiang Xiao was stunned for a moment, turned his head to look, yo? Isn't this that little brother from the country of Yi? What a coincidence?

"This is really a wonderful coincidence!" The Yi youth looked surprised, and said to the uncle in the middle seat, "Sir, can we switch seats? I'm by the window, just two rows back, I want to sit with my friend."

The middle-aged uncle happily went to sit by the window.

And Jiang Xiao also grinned, who is friends with you?

Also, I'm wearing a mask and a duckbill cap, how did you recognize me at a glance?

Oh, right... it seems that the hat and mask are a bit too distinctive, especially the mask Jiang Xiao is wearing, with a mouth printed on the mask, sticking out its tongue, looking very owed...

The Yi youth sat down with a thud, stretched out his hand to Jiang Xiao, and introduced himself, "You can call me Lelis."

Jiang Xiao blinked, looking at the golden curly-haired, particularly well-behaved otaku-like youth in front of him. He hesitated for a moment, reached out and shook his hand, and introduced himself, "My name is Da Mengnan (Big Strong Man)."

Lelis: "..."

Jiang Xiao turned his head, opened the live broadcast software, and watched the drawing ceremony.

Lelis asked curiously, "Aren't you an international student? Why do you travel back and forth between two cities regularly? Could it be that you, like me, are also going to watch the games?"

Jiang Xiao didn't even turn his head, his attitude was not very good, and said, "You're going to watch the games again?"

There's no way, if Jiang Xiao was an ordinary person, it wouldn't matter. The key is that Jiang Xiao's identity is very special, so he doesn't believe in such coincidences.

Lelis was a little surprised, not understanding why this Eastern youth had such an attitude, but it could be seen that Lelis had a very good personality, and explained, "Yeah, I'm here to watch Jiang Xiaopi's games."

Jiang Xiao: "..."

Jiang Xiao still didn't quite believe it, and said, "You fly back and forth every day to watch the games?"

Lelis: "Of course! His individual games and team games, I don't miss a single one. I want to put Jiang Xiaopi in my eyes and integrate him into my soul."

Jiang Xiao only felt a layer of goosebumps on his body...

"Eh." Lelis leaned over with great interest, and said, "The player cards for the top five players in the 2017 individual competition were announced last night! The game is about to be released! How many points do you think Jiang Xiaopi's character's overall rating is?"

"How many?" Jiang Xiao asked curiously.

"99!!!" Lelis shouted loudly, and the passengers on the plane looked over one after another, but Lelis had entered a state of selflessness and didn't care about anything at all, "Out of 652 individual players and 1040 team competition participants, there is only one with an overall rating of 99!"

"Uh..." Jiang Xiao scratched his head, looking at the excited youth in front of him, as if his own idol had been recognized, and he was also honored.

Jiang Xiao asked curiously, "What is the overall rating of the second place?"

Lelis laughed and said, "The Shield of Europe - Neil! The pride of our country! An overall rating of 97 points! The captain of the Northern Kingdom on the team competition side is also 97 points, just these two."

Jiang Xiao sighed silently in his heart.

Hey... silly kid, do you know that they can be rated 97 points because they can only get 97 points.

And my rating is 99 because the highest score is only 99...

Lelis said excitedly, "The last individual competition was so worth it, it was worth taking out a loan to buy a ticket! Jiang Xiaopi's flashing routines and coordination with the long halberd were just amazing. I must develop that set of combos!"

The corner of Jiang Xiao's mouth twitched, and said, "Taking out a loan to buy a ticket?"

"Ah, do you know how expensive a World Cup ticket is?" Lelis casually waved his hand, and said, "Don't care about those, it's not certain whether this money will be used or not. It's most important to live comfortably now."

Jiang Xiao: "..."

Jiang Xiao looked at the drawing ceremony on the mobile phone screen while curiously saying, "Isn't it *Star Martial World Cup 2017*? At that time, did Jiang Xiaopi know the long halberd technique?"

"Huh?" Lelis was immediately stunned. He stroked his chin with one hand, thought for a long time, and said, "What you said makes a lot of sense, but... I think he just didn't show it. Look at his daggers, giant blades, bows and arrows, he knows them all, so he should also know the long halberd!

Easterners, you know, all hide it, very bad. Yes! That's right, he already knew the long halberd technique in 2017! It must be like this!

I have to suggest to the game company when I go back to let them immediately get Jiang Xiaopi's long halberd technique out."

"Um..." Jiang Xiao silently complained in his heart: You know me better than I do!

I didn't know any Fang Tian Hua Ji (Alabard) in 2017. In 2017, I was still running around the playground like a dead dog.

"Here it comes!" Lelis's head leaned over, looking at Jiang Xiao's mobile phone screen. On the No. 1 position on the left, Jiang Xiao, with his sunny smile, broke into people's eyes.

Jiang Xiao then remembered to give Lelis an earphone.

As soon as Lelis put on the earphone, he heard Jiang Xiao's pure Chinese vocabulary: "Fuck!"

"It's an internal war..." Lelis also laughed, and said, "That guy is also very fierce, wielding a big knife."

Jiang Xiao's nose was almost crooked with anger. Did I not know that Wu Haoyang was wielding a big knife?

In the character map on the right, the Red Star flag was flying high, and finally settled in the upper right corner of the character map.

And that character map was Wu Haoyang, wearing the Huaxia national team uniform.

Wu Haoyang's tiger eyes were piercing and energetic, not angry but majestic, holding a knife in one hand and standing with his hands behind his back, extremely heroic.

At the same time, in Bailin City, in the small auditorium of the national team's hotel.

A sound of gasping for air came, followed by a burst of wailing.

Due to the casualties in the previous round, there are now 64 individual competition students.

Among the 64 people, 7 are Huaxia national team members, and the probability of being drawn into a group is not too low.

Wu Haoyang is a real man! A true iron-blooded man!

His tiger eyes were hot and scorching. Looking at the match list on the big screen in front of him, he clenched his fists tightly and slammed them heavily on the table, saying, "This draw is very skillful! I'm very happy! What are you all yelling about? This will be an exciting game!"

Obviously, Second Master Wu was angered by the sighs of the coaches and companions. In his ears, the sighs were not aimed at the two Huaxia players being drawn into a group.

These sighs were specifically aimed at Wu Haoyang, and were more like regret for him personally.

Wu Haoyang's loud shout made the small auditorium silent, and Wu Haoyang nodded in satisfaction.

Poke~

Wu Haoyang felt his shoulder being poked. He turned his head and saw Liu Yang's cautious appearance.

Wu Haoyang raised his eyebrows slightly: "Um? What's the matter?"

Liu Yang clasped his fists and said weakly, "Congratulations, Second Master, on winning the top 64!"

Wu Haoyang's face darkened: "I'm fucking #￥@￥%!!!"