After hanging up the phone, Ji Siyue felt as if a weight had been lifted from her heart.
At this moment, she suddenly realized that she seemed to have put down a very heavy burden.
These days, or perhaps these years, she had gradually lost herself. This time, she finally became her stubborn self again.
The reason she dared to speak so straightforwardly was that when she was valued by the company, she signed a three - year contract with a liquidated damages of 500,000 yuan. By now, she had saved some money and could afford the penalty.
She sat downstairs for a while to calm herself down before going back upstairs.
When she returned upstairs, a round of the game had already ended.
Weitang had won.
Qin Chengyao was just using the in - team earpiece to instruct the team members on the next tactics. Ji Siyue didn't interrupt and just sat quietly below.
Just as the second round was about to start, the opposing team suddenly requested a timeout and replaced a player. The new player looked very young and probably lacked combat experience.
This was an outright mockery!
After one round, they found that the opponent's strength was not enough to require their top players, so they sent a rookie. One purpose was to train the new player, and the other was to mock.
Such things were not rare, but what was rare was that the person being mocked was Qin Chengyao.
Logically speaking, a person like Qin Chengyao should never fall to the point of being mocked. However, this time, the mockery was because of the new team member, Xingxing.
When the starting lineup was announced, everyone thought this person would be a secret weapon. Who would have thought that he would turn out to be a useless teammate!
Xingxing was already sweating profusely on his forehead and looked extremely nervous.
After the opposing team finished changing players, Qin Chengyao pulled Xingxing's hand beside him and smiled. "It's okay. Just follow the tactics we planned before."
"En..." Xingxing nodded.
This interaction between the two caught the audience's attention and caused another stir.
"Am I seeing things? Is he comforting him?"
"I can see from their lip - movements that he said 'it's okay', but I can't make out the rest."
"I'm shipping them..."
"I'll pour a bucket of cold water on you upstairs. He and Yuebing are boyfriend and girlfriend!"
The second round of the duel officially began.
The rule for this round was that the character - selection interface was completely hidden. Only after both sides were ready could they see the other side's character occupations.
One minute later, when the lineup of the GH team appeared, everyone was shocked.
Nan Gongqi played a side - guarding assassin, Zhu Zhiyao was a frontal gunfighter as the vanguard, and another player, Bai Yu, was an artilleryman as a side - guard. The white - robed Qin Chengyao, who should have been in the middle, was now at the back of the team, and Xingxing was standing in the middle.
It was understandable if it was just a sudden change of positions, but... what did it mean to have two white - robed characters?
Taking a closer look at their attributes, they seemed different. In the past, Qin Chengyao usually carried more offensive skills, but this time, all his skills were for healing. On the contrary, Xingxing, whose operation and reaction were not as good, carried all offensive skills.
This unconventional lineup left the opposing team a bit confused, and they didn't dare to launch an attack rashly.
Qin Chengyao just smiled, which made the audience go crazy.
"Xingxing."
"I'm here!"
"It's time. Just do it! We're by your side!"
"Okay!"
Xingxing wiped the sweat from his forehead, and his eyes suddenly became extremely determined.
[Xingxing] jumped up and first sent a continuous - healing buff to the whole team.
The players of Weitang launched an attack, which was blocked by the side - guarding [Nan Gongqi]. The assaulter [Zhu Zhiyao] dodged a few times and directly reached the side of the opposing team's side - guard and got entangled with him.
[Bai Yu] was not to be outdone. Relying on his speed advantage, he challenged one of the opposing team's artillerymen one - on - one.
Now, all that was left of the GH team was a white - robed [Qin Chengyao] with no offensive ability and a novice [Xingxing].
Although three of their own players were entangled, the remaining two on the opposing side were an assassin and a healer. As long as they could attack any of the opponents, they would have a great advantage in this battle!
The opposing team might have already discussed their plan and directly rushed forward and launched a series of combos at Xingxing.
[Xingxing] didn't have time to dodge. Fortunately, [Jin Yuanbao]'s healing was powerful enough to save the nearly - dead player.
Qin Chengyao: "Now is the time!"
Xingxing: "Yes!"
As the words fell, [Xingxing] directly controlled his character, accumulated a whole set of combos, and rushed directly into the opposing team's formation.
The opposing team members also felt that the damage of this set of combos was dangerous and quickly returned to protect their own ACE.
However, [Xingxing]'s skills suddenly changed direction and directly hit the opposing team's assassin.
[FIRSTBLOOD!]
[System prompt: Weitang player Yingyingcao was defeated by GH player Xingxing!]
The world seemed to be silent for a few seconds. Ji Siyue was also stunned and then looked at the people with their backs to her who were playing the game in disbelief.
In the eyes of outsiders, their tactic might seem to be to entangle the opponents separately and then let Qin Chengyao assist Xingxing to wear down the opponents' HP little by little. However, no one had expected that their target from the beginning was the assassin with the highest output.
Coincidentally, the assassin who was killed was the new substitute who had been replaced. It was estimated that he had a huge psychological shadow by now.
Now that the assassin was gone, the opposing team's advantage was immediately gone. Since they had a three - protect - two lineup, without one of the main attackers, the remaining one would have little chance of surviving if they were attacked together.
The following plot was very clear.
The GH team won the second round, and the score between GH and Weitang was tied 1:1.
"That's amazing!"
"Can tactics be used like this?"
"Sure enough, they are veterans! Weitang is still a bit overconfident, and the opposing team is still too inexperienced!"
"Their tactic was to kill an attacker. Logically speaking, killing the opponent's warlock would also work, since the three players were all entangled and couldn't come back. But they killed the assassin first... This is to regain face. Awesome!"
"Awesome +10086!"
Ji Siyue was also very excited, but she didn't lose her composure.
This was just the second round. Now the score was tied 1:1. Whether they could win the first victory in this online qualifier still depended on the most crucial final round!
There was usually a half - hour break before the match - point round. The entire GH team immediately left their computer screens to have a meeting.
Ji Siyue put on a mask, walked forward, refilled warm water in their water cups, put in chocolate bars, and adjusted the positions of the keyboards. After finishing all these trivial things, she left.
Before leaving, a bullet - screen on the computer screen next to her caught her attention.