translator: Oyen editor: Ciel
Shen He wasn’t sleepy during the lunch break. Li Muran didn’t sleep either, so the both of them simply went over their tactics again to prepare themselves for the afternoon’s game.
All of Mojue’s members arrived at the competition venue at 2:00pm in the afternoon. The first match was group E’s Shen He and Li Muran against Zhou Xuewei and Li Dongqing, while the support rates of both sides were 25% and 75% respectively. Naturally, the gap was because Zhou Xuewei was the esports circle’s ‘Milk God’, and her popularity was much higher than that of Li Muran’s.
During the pre-match commentary, Ye Chao’s comments were objective. “Both sides have similar configurations, with one output and one healer. This situation can also be considered a great test for healers. If they can administer first aid at a critical moment, it will be equivalent to giving their teammates a second life.”
“In your opinion, which side has the better chance of winning?” Liang Ru asked.
“Sky team’s combination will win.” Ye Chao didn’t hesitate to reply. “Zhou Xuewei’s healing skills have been affirmed by many seniors, while Li Muran is still a newcomer.”
99% of the audience watching felt the same way as Ye Chao. As a newcomer, Li Muran’s healing and emergency response couldn’t be compared to that of Zhou Xuewei’s. However, Qin Mo felt that these 99% of the audience had greatly underestimated Li Muran, and that his extraordinary calmness and keen insight was no worse than Zhou Xuewei’s.
His experience in competitions was naturally inferior to Zhou Xuewei’s, but because of this, his tactics would be new and more innovative than hers.
***
The match soon began. As the first game was the Sky team’s home map, Zhou Xuewei selected ‘Yongye’s Underground Palace’.
Seeing this map, Li Muran’s thoughts immediately started running, trying to analyse the other party’s thoughts—— The maze was located in a deep underground castle, with very dim lighting from the candles on the walls, shortening the range of visibility to just 10 metres. This gave Li Dongqing’s assassin more opportunities if he lurked in the dark.
In this game, the other party ought to use guerrilla warfare tactics in the maze. Li Dongqing would sneak attack as the offensive, with Zhou Xuewei protecting him from behind, and both would immediately retreat after accumulating a small advantage, before ambushing once more after their skills were once again available. In such a situation, Li Muran and Shen He would be very passive; how did he go about resolving this?
Seeing that the time was almost up, Shen He asked anxiously. “Brother Ran, what secret book should I bring?”
Master had told him to listen to Li Muran’s arrangement, and Shen He dared not choose secret books casually.
Thinking for a moment, Li Muran replied. “You bring the damage reflecting book, while I’ll bring a healing book. We will defend first, then seize the opportunity.”
On a maze terrain in an away game, it was a good idea to defend first—— That was what Li Muran thought.
Hearing this, Shen He immediately selected the secret book ‘Immovable Mountain’ accordingly, while Li Muran selected the team heal secret book ‘Questioning Heart Sutra’.
After both sides confirmed their secret books and equipment, the match officially began.
The underground maze was illuminated solely by the candles flickering on the walls, and the players’ range of visibility was limited to ten metres. Thus, long-distance professions were naturally restricted. Fortunately, Shen He could summon pets at a range of 20 metres. Upon entering the map, he tactfully summoned a few mechanical rats at the maximum distance, and set them to attack automatically.
In the automatic mode, the mechanical rats would automatically attack enemies within their range. Of course, the mechanical rats were unable to detect enemies in stealth mode. The reason Shen He did this was to confirm Zhou Xuewei’s position.
Shen He and Li Muran proceeded down the intricate underground passage cautiously. Just as they were about to turn around the corner, the mechanical rats walking ahead of their master suddenly ran out. Clearly, Zhou Xuewei was somewhere in range to the left, so Li Dongqing must be nearby also.
Shen He reacted very quickly, and immediately summoning the defense pet mechanical blood cow——
Sure enough, Li Dongqing appeared behind him. The dagger in his hands continuously stabbed Shen He in the back!
Blood splashed across the walls of the underground maze. Li Dongqing’s outbreak not only killed the mechanical blood cow, but also reduced Shen He’s health to half in one breath!
Clearly, the opposing assassin had used the big move ‘Shadowless Dragon’. Otherwise, he could not have burst out such an extreme amount of damage in an instant. At this moment, Li Muran used the instant healing skill ‘Suspended Silk Diagnosis’ and added the blood buff ‘Divine Moxibustion Needle’ to fill up Shen He’s blood volume directly.
Li Dongging took this chance to vanish, and Zhou Xuewei, who had previously been standing in the corner, had long since disappeared by the time Shen He caught up.
Sure enough, they were using guerrilla warfare tactics.
Li Dongqing broke out at the beginning, forcing Li Muran to use a big single-target heal and getting rid of Shen He’s mechanical blood cow. However, he himself also paid a heavy price. Not only was ‘Shadowless Dragon’ in cooldown, his main attack skills ‘Meteor’ and ‘Deadly Ice Silkworm’ were also in cooldown.
From the god’s perspective, the audience realised that Li Dongqing had retreated after attacking Shen He, detouring round the corner to meet up with Zhou Xuewei, who used the skill ‘Miraculous Healing Hands’—— the only skill from Fangcao Hall which could return 30% blue to the designated target.
The amount of blue consumed by Li Dongqing earlier was instantly refilled by Zhou Xuewei.
Both of them wandered around the maze. After Li Dongqing’s skills had come off cooldown, he entered stealth once more, stalking Shen He from behind.
“Be careful in case he reflects the damage!” Zhou Xuewei reminded.
Aware of the possibility, Li Dongqing used the basic attack skill ‘Rainbow Through The Sun’ to test it out.
Sensing that the assassin had appeared behind him, Shen He didn’t hesitate to use the secret book ‘Immovable Mountain’ to reflect the damage, simultaneously summoning four mechanical chariots to surround Li Dongqing.
Shen He’s operations were completed at an astonishing speed. After the chariots surrounded his opponent, he followed up with a wave of mechanical rats to weaken Li Dongqing, before immobilising the assassin with the mechanical snakes!
With the appearance of one pet after another, each with different control effects and different amounts of damage, Li Dongqing’s blood volume began to fall. Zhou Xuewei immediately gave him a quick healing, and used ‘Rectifying Evil’ at the same time to relive the negative fear status.
The existence of a powerful healer behind Li Dongqing minimised the effects of Shen He’s attack. The amount of blood he got rid of was instantly added back by Zhou Xuewei, scaring Li Muran. Zhou Xuewei was indeed a first-class healer, to be able to control her teammate’s blood volume so precisely, and calculate Shen He’s damage output accurately. Even if Shen He’s output suppressed Li Dongqing, she was still stable, and could heal her teammate promptly.
Both sides began to exchange waves of damage, but in the end, Li Dongqing and Shen He’s blood were constantly filled up by their healers, as if they had never fought.
Several members of the audience began to complain, with some saying that they had ‘fought for nothing’.
However, those who understood the flow of the battle knew that Li Muran and Shen He had gradually fallen into a disadvantage.
At this time, Li Muran’s blue was much less than Zhou Xuewei’s, and Shen He’s blue was also much less than Li Dongqing’s. Zhou Xuewei’s control over her blue was abnormally strong, and her healing was never wasted. Sometimes, she could even allow Li Dongqing’s blood volume to fall into a dangerous state before using a big move, in order to avoid overhealing.
Obviously, she was extremely accurate in judging the cooldown time and damage of Shen He’s skills, which was something Li Muran couldn’t do yet.
After the second exchange of skills, Li Dongqing and Zhou Xuewei retreated once again, and Zhou Xuewei added 30% blue back to Li Dongqing with her ‘Miraculous Healing Hands’ skill.
Seeing this, Qin Mo couldn’t help sighing. “Muran is going to lose this game.”
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***
At this time, Li Muran also realized that there was a serious problem with his way of thinking. Defense in an away map was the most commonly used tactic, but if your opponent was a calm and careful person, the longer the game dragged on, the more disadvantageous it would be to yourself.
Zhou Xuewei hardly made any mistakes, and her teammate’s blood volume was always under her control, which meant that Shen He couldn’t find a chance to kill his opponent when defending.
From the very beginning, Li Muran’s defensive strategy left his side completely passive. After both sides entered the awkward situation of trading skills, his basic healing volume could not match Zhou Xuewei’s. Thus, in this slow consumption of resources, he was completely unable to show the advantage of an agility-based healer.
The pace of the maze guerrilla warfare was very slow, and the game was played for fifteen minutes. In the end, Li Muran’s blue was completely consumed. Li Dongqing relied on a wave of outbreaks to kill Shen He, leaving Li Muran empty of blue and full of blood, so he simply pressed surrender.
Since the beginning of the league, this was the first time that someone had voluntarily surrendered.
The audience was surprised. Unexpectedly, the expressionless teenager of the Mojue team was very straightforward. Knowing that there was no need to delay, he surrendered directly and started the next game.
Seeing Li Muran’s surrender, Xiao Han couldn’t help but offer some praise. “Muran is really calm.”
“In the middle of the game, he realised that he would lose,” Qin Mo replied, “He might as well surrender to start the next game, and seize the time to adjust his psychological state.”
Since Li Muran voluntarily surrendered, the first game ended, and they entered a short break.
Li Muran began to think carefully about his arrangements for the second game.
Zhou Xuewei’s equipment added to her basic healing, so in a protracted war of consumption, she would save a lot more blue than Li Muran, and her control over the blood volume would be more stable. Li Muran’s basic healing could not match Zhou Xuewei’s, but his advantage was in quickly maintaining blood volume through fast cooldowns and greater criticals, which was more suited for a fast-paced group battle. Dragging the time before Zhou Xuewei could only delay his time of death; it would be better if they fought explosively, perhaps Shen He could even kill someone from the opposing team.
Thinking of this, Li Muran immediately made up his mind. “Xiao He, according to what we tried last night, you will focus on Li Dongqing and release all your skills on him.”
Hearing Li Muran’s decisive tone of voice, Shen He was excited. “Understood, just watch me!”
***
The second game was Li Muran and Shen He’s home map, and Li Muran quickly submitted his choice—— Nanjiang Poison Swamp.
This was the map that Zhu Qingyue had used previously. The poisonous gas in the environment would cause everyone to lose 1% of their blood per second, and a layer of poisoning would be added every second after falling into the swamp. Aside from the aerial combat death map, this could be considered the map with the fastest pace of battle.
The reason Li Muran selected this map was because Shen He’s mechanical chariot could knock their opponents into the swamp, and because the entire map was covered in poisonous miasma. If no healing was done, all players would die in 100 seconds at most. Furthermore, even with healing, the battle wouldn’t last more than five minutes, because the healers had a limited amount of blue.
He used a super fast-paced map precisely because he didn’t want to fight a war of attrition with Zhou Xuewei.
Seeing this map, Qin Mo was immediately able to guess Li Muran’s thoughts, so naturally, Zhou Xuewei would also realise this. When choosing secret books, she brought the team healing skill ‘Questioning Heart Sutra’, wanting to restore blood volume at a critical moment. On the other hand, Li Dongqing selected the secret book ‘Clear Heart Mantra’ to avoid being controlled by Shen He in the swamp.
After the map loaded, both sides quickly rushed to the middle of the map.
From a distance, Fangcao Hall’s pharmacist ‘Snow Mountain’ appeared in their field of vision, but her teammate ‘At Green Hills’ was nowhere to be seen.
“The opposite is invisible, be careful.” Li Muran reminded.
Shen He nodded, and walked forward cautiously.
At this moment, a bloody light suddenly flashed before his eyes—— it turned out that Li Dongqing had circled behind him while in stealth!
The attack from the assassin was extremely fierce, starting with a combo of ‘Meteor’ and ‘Deadly Ice Silkworm’, followed by the illusion control skill, ‘Phantom Dreaming’. Shen He lost 35% of his health from this series of moves, and a field of flowers bloomed before him, preventing him from locating his opponent’s position at all.
The assassin could rely on stealth to grab the advantage first, which was still a very normal situation. Li Muran reacted quickly, jumping away while resolving the illusion control on Shen He with ‘Rectifying Evil’. He then stacked five layers of ‘Divine Moxibustion Needle’ blood buff on Shen He, before using the skill ‘Meridian Penetration’, which triggered a critical, filling both his and Shen He’s blood at the same time.
Li Muran: “Fight!”
Shen He, whose field of vision was restored, immediately summoned a pet—— Mechanical Horse!
A huge mechanical horse appeared, and all hostile targets within its range were controlled by fear.
Unable to release his skills and qinggong skills in a state of fear, Li Dongqing immediately used the purification secret book ‘Clear Heart Sutra’. However, Shen He’s hand speed was extremely fast, summoning four mechanical chariots in one go to push Li Dongqing into the swamp!
Then, Shen He summoned mechanical rats in the swamp, inflicting three layers of weakness on Li Dongqing.
In the blink of an eye, three layers of poison had been stacked on Li Dongqing, causing him to lost 5% of his blood per second.
Shen He decisively summoned mechanical snakes, flanking Li Dongqing from left and right, landing a wave of critical strike damage!
A large wave of pets rampaged across the field. Coupled with the poisoning from the swamp, Li Dongqing’s blood volume rapidly fell to about 25%, which was extremely dangerous. Zhou Xuewei decisively started healing, clearing the weakness and poisoning states with the purification skill ‘Rectifying Evil’, adding blood with ‘Suspended Silk Diagnosis’, and following up with the secret book skill ‘Questioning Heart Sutra’ to return Li Dongqing’s blood.
However, in the next moment, Shen He and Li Muran opened their secret books simultaneously——
With a gentle melody ringing in their ears, Li Muran’s secret book skill ‘Song of Everlasting Regret’ caused Zhou Xuewei to fall asleep for 5 seconds. Meanwhile, Shen He’s secret book skill ‘Makeup In Autumn’ had the farthest distance and the highest single attack damage among all the attack-based secret books.
Their cooperation was very tacit. As soon as Zhou Xuewei used a single target healing skill and relieved the negative control, they used their secret book skills at the same time.
Controlled by the sleep effect, Zhou Xuewei was unable to add blood to her teammate. Shen He decisively followed up with the big move ‘Mechanical Hawk’, which flew into the air and threw down a rain of weapons, causing Li Dongqing and Zhou Xuewei to fall to half-blood at the same time.
With the cooldown reduction bonus, Shen He was able to summon pets extremely quickly. Li Dongqing finally flew out of the swamp, closing in on Shen He and bursting out a large wave of damage, but Shen He wasn’t afraid. Instead of defending or avoiding Li Dongqing’s attacks, Shen He attacked even more violently, continuously summoning his mechanical chariots to blast around, smacking Li Dongqing down to 30% health!
By this time, Li Dongqing was once again affected by the three layers of poison, losing 5% of his blood per second.
By the time the sleep control ended, Li Dongqing had been badly poisoned, and was left with 10% of his blood.
The instant healing skill’s cooldown had not yet finished, and Zhou Xuewei decisively began to cast a big group heal skill——
However, her casting speed was not as fast as Shen He’s cooldown. Shen He released a large wave of mechanical rats, and used a large number of the most basic bite attack to instantly empty 10% of Li Dongqing’s health.
The rhythm of this game was too fast. The moment her teammate died, Zhou Xuewei was still left with about 50% of her blue. She didn’t expect that Shen He’s explosive fight and Li Muran’s 5-second sleep control would cause her to miss the opportunity to save her teammate.
Even if Li Dongqing returned to the shore to hit a wave of damage, he had already been badly poisoned by the swamp, and Zhou Xuewei had been powerless to save him.
—— [Drunken River] has killed [At Green Hills]!
Seeing the prompt appear on screen, Shen He yelled in excitement. “Brother Ran, I did hahaha, I really killed him in seconds!”
“En, well done.” Li Muran replied calmly.
Zhou Xuewei’s blood volume was not low, and she still had enough blue, but she decided to surrender preemptively. As a healer, it wasn’t necessary for her to spend time dragging out the battle against both opponents. Since Li Muran surrendered during the last game, she simply surrendered this game as a sign of respect.
This teenager had really impressed her. The explosive play they chose for the second game was indeed the most effective way to deal with her steady healing.
However, she wouldn’t be fooled by Li Muran again in the third game.
“Dongqing, take the ‘Vajra Sutra’ secret book for immunity in the third game, don’t be killed by the opponent in a single wave.” Zhou Xuewei commanded calmly.
Li Dongqing nodded. “Understood, sister Xuewei.”
The secret book for reflecting damage required the player to be extremely aware, and only by reflecting the opponent’s damage at a critical moment was it effective. However, the immunity secret book was much more convenient, allowing a player to not take any damage for 5 seconds. As long as Li Dongqing wasn’t killed by the other side, Zhou Xuewei naturally had her ways of gradually dragging out the war until it favoured them, by relying on her snowball playing method.
***
Once again, Mingzhou Square appeared in the third game.
The secret books carried by Li Muran and Shen He were the same as the last game, but their effects were greatly reduced. Without the influence of the miasma, coupled with the damage-immunity secret book on the other side, Shen He’s output was insufficient to kill Li Dongqing. Thus, the war was forcibly dragged on, allowing Zhou Xuewei to control the rhythm of the game once again.
With the continuous exchange of skills between both sides, the gap in the healers’ blue gradually widened, and Zhou Xuewei once again used the snowball effect to accumulate a large advantage, forcing the situation where they once again ran out of blue.
Discounting the difference in maps, the process of the third game was an exact replica of the first game—— fighting a protracted war with Zhou Xuewei and fighting to heal as much as possible. Li Muran was unwilling but powerless, and finally ran out of blue 10 minutes into the battle, surrendering once Shen He was finally killed.
The match finally ended with a score of 1:2. While Zhou Xuewei won two games, the audience felt that the second game was the most exciting. The milk god was unable to withstand explosive suppression tactics used by Li Muran and Shen He in the second game. Compared with the slow-paced game of both sides continuously healing and exchanging skills until their blue was empty, the fast-paced match was more enjoyable to watch.
Li Muran’s ability to arrange tactics in combination with the terrain had been demonstrated. However, most of the audience didn’t realise that Li Muran had commanded the second game.
When interviewed by the reporter, Li Muran explained calmly. “Zhou Xuewei is a very strong healer. My level is still insufficient compared to her, which is the key reason we lost.”
Scratching his head, Shen He added, “We won at least one game, which is better than yesterday.”
He was very easy to satisfy. He lost 1:2 today, which was a little better than the 0:2 loss on the first day.
The reporter didn’t know whether to laugh or to cry. “Can you make more progress tomorrow?”
Shen He laughed. “Anyway, we have lost two games in a row and there is no hope of qualifying. We’ll try to win one tomorrow, so we won’t be at the bottom of the group!”
Still maintaining his paralysed face, Li Muran added. “We’ll try our best tomorrow too.”
Arriving backstage, as soon as Shen He sat down, Qin Mo whispered. “Muran, you come with me.”
Shen He’s expression was a little lost. Instead of scolding him, his master dragged Muran to the small dark room. Why did he feel like he was missing something?
***
Bringing Li Muran to the next room, Qin Mo asked directly. “Muran, how do you feel about the tactical arrangement for this match?”
“I didn’t arrange it well.” Li Muran replied, ashamed.
“Which part of it wasn’t good?” Qin Mo asked again.
“When the other side chose the maze in the first game, I guessed that there would be a guerrilla sneak attack on the opposite side, but my idea was too conservative and used defensive tactics, which made Shen He fall into a passive situation.” Li Muran explained.
Qin Mo nodded. “What about now? Have you thought of a way to resolve it?”
“Let Shen He bring an output secret book, and use pets to control the field,” Li Muran replied. “Play more actively.”
“Can you win this way?” Qin Mo asked bluntly.
Li Muran was stunned—— captain Qin was right, there wasn’t a chance of winning this way. In the third game, Shen He brought an output secret book, but they still lost, which was proof that even with an offensive secret book, Shen He was unable to kill an opponent without the bonus of the environment’s poisonous gas.
Shen He’s output was fast enough, but Zhou Xuewei’s healing was faster. As long as Shen He couldn’t kill Li Dongqing instantly, the war would gradually be dragged on. Zhou Xuewei was a typical late-stage player, and could gradually accumulate weak advantages over time. Once she dragged the war into the later stages, Li Muran would naturally lose.
However, in the presence of a strong healer, it was difficult for a single output to kill the opposite output by himself.
If it was switched to dual output, it would be much easier. For example, if Zhou Xuewei’s opponent was Twin Stars, the damage caused by Qin Mo and Xiao Han’s joint output was much higher than her healing. She would struggle to cope, and there would definitely be a gap in her healing. When the time game, Qin Mo and Xiao Han could control her, before killing her teammate in that time.
Li Muran quickly sorted out the various thoughts in his mind. “Even if Shen He brings an output book, we still cannot win.”
“Why did you win the second game?” Qin Mo questioned.
“Because the map’s environmental poisoning in the second game helped us make up for when Shen He’s output wasn’t enough,” Li Muran replied.
The miasma map poisoned Li Dongqing severely, allowing Shen He to kill him in one wave. If it weren’t for the effects of poisoning, even if Shen He used all the burst skills and summoned all the pets, he could only beat Li Dongqing to a residual blood state of about 30% at most. Zhou Xuewei would then rescue her teammate after casting a healing skill.
“Think about it again, why did you win the second game?” Qin Mo repeated.
“Because our outbreak is enough, killing Li Dongqing in a single wave.” Li Muran replied uneasily.
“Calm down and think again. Is it really just because of the terrain?” Qin Mo hinted.
The deliberate repetition of the question prompted Li Muran to think about it again. Suddenly, it hit him—— the map miasma was an external terrain factor, but could an external factor be transformed into a controllable factor?
Li Muran’s eyes suddenly lit up. “Without the help of the terrain, I can still help Shen He output!”
Qin Mo’s gaze finally showed a trace of appreciation. “So, which secret book could you have you brought?”
“River Sunset,” Li Muran replied immediately. “It has the probability of triggering an instant death effect if the blood volume of the opponent is below 30%. Shen He can hit his opponent to about 30% with all of his strength in the presence of the healer. After that, I can open the secret book to instantly kill the opponent. No matter how fast Zhou Xuewei’s healing is, it will not be faster than the secret book’s instant death effect.”
“Your understanding is very good.” Satisfied, Qin Mo patted Li Muran on the shoulder. “Learning tactics is much more difficult than improving personal strength. You were able to react in time and use violent suppression to win a game despite commanding for the first time, which meets my expectations.”
Hearing praise from his captain, Li Muran was very happy. However, his expression was still paralysed. “I will study hard.”
“Because of the rich variety in secret books, there are immeasurable ways to come up with tactics in this game,” Qin Mo explained. “But, generally speaking, the control player overcomes the explosive player, and the explosive player overcomes the late player. When the late lineup is compared with the control lineup, you can only rely on your own ability.”
Li Muran was suddenly enlightened——
Although Qin Mo’s summary was brief, it broke the principle of mutual restraint of many formations with a simple sentence.
A lineup with strong output would instantly falter if continuously controlled by negative states such as fear, silence, and so on. And players who dragged the rhythm had no time to recover once smashed by violent suppressive output, ending the war prematurely. When both sides were control and late stage lineups, they would play a slow game. In that case, victory would depend on who had finer operations, and made fewer mistakes.
All tactical arrangements fell under this relationship of mutual restraint, which could be used to come up with counter-restraining measures.
Inference, counter-inference, layout, breaking the game—— in fact, tactics were an invisible confrontation.
For Li Muran, Qin Mo’s advice opened the door to a new world, making him aware of the crucial role of tactical masters.
Li Muran wasn’t good at expressing himself, so he could only remember his gratitude to Qin Mo in his heart.
Seeing his enlightened expression, Qin Mo knew that Li Muran understood. “You should have gained a lot from this game. After going back, sort out all the secret books and write out various combinations, before adding them to maps to make a preliminary tactical summary. This will be your task for now. When the partner competition is over, I want to read a detailed report.”
“Yes, captain,” Li Muran nodded immediately. “I’ll do it properly.”
Looking at the teenager’s serious appearance, Qin Mo’s expression was also much milder. “You did a good job today. Keep working hard.”
Nodding, Li Muran followed Qin Mo out.
***
Shen He had been eavesdropping outside. Seeing the two suddenly come out, he immediately pretended that he had been on the way to the toilet, but his acting skills were so bad that he was exposed by Qin Mo with just a glance. “How much did you hear?”
Stunned, Shen He laughed hollowly. “Hehe, although I heard most of it, but… I didn’t understand anything!”
At least he was honest. “You don’t need to learn these things,” Qin Mo commented lightly. “Both you and Muran have your own strengths. Just listen to Muran’s arrangements in the future.”
“Oh,” Shen He replied, nodding. “I understand, master.”
After Qin Mo left, Shen He leaned over immediately. “Brother Ran, did my master scold you?”
Li Muran shook his head. “No.”
Shen He sighed in relief. “That’s good!”
Then he took out his mobile phone, swiftly transferring 100 red packets to Li Muran via WeChat.
Li Muran’s mobile phone rang. Opening it, he found the red packets sent by Shen He. “What is this for?”
“Returning politeness!” Shen He laughed. “It must be hard for you to lose as a commander for the first time today, so this time it’s my turn to comfort you!”
Li Muran: “…”
In fact, he didn’t feel bad at all. On the contrary, he had long since prepared himself psychologically for his loss to Zhou Xuewei. Still, he had benefited a lot from both his harvest in today’s match, as well as Qin Mo’s advice after the match. With this, he had officially entered the gates of the command department. Li Muran was both happy and excited about this, and had already forgotten about the earlier loss.
However, his paralysed face was easily misunderstood, making it seem like he was unhappy.
In reply to Shen He’s laugh, Li Muran finally smiled. “I don’t feel bad, thank you for your comfort.”
Shen He immediately grabbed him by the shoulder. “Brother Ran, don’t pretend in front of me. Your laugh is worse than seeing you crying!”
Li Muran: “……”
Forget it, he shouldn’t smile from now on.
Li Muran turned away with a stiff expression, but his heart was very warm.
The little monkey unexpectedly learned how to comfort him. Although he copied the way he sent red packets, Li Muran still received it happily.
As Qin Mo said, both he and Shen He had their own strengths. Perhaps after many years, they would grow into independent players, one planning strategies from the rear, while the other charged in to kill enemies in front. Although they would not be as dazzling as the Twin Stars, they would still be good partners, right?
Thinking of the future, Li Muran suddenly felt that his initial dislike for the little monkey had completely disappeared.
Now, looking at this guy’s brilliant smile, it had become more and more pleasing to the eye.
The second match was very exciting! Li Muran did a good job for a newcomer~! I’m beginning to like Li Muran‘s character a lot more now~ Poor Li Muran though~ His smile was rejected by Shen He… 🤣 But they really make a good pair! I’m looking forward to see more of their future matches~!
Thank you for the chapter! 💖💖💖
Lol, Li Muran will be Qin Mo’s successor as tactical master~ I hope to see him more in the future, of course with Shen He also ❤
Lol, that’s right, his smile is rejected by Shen He 🤣🤣
You’re welcome~ 💕
By that won’t Qin Mo have two disciples~?
why don’t it become Xiao Han’s apprentice? 😆
Shen He and Muran become their children lol 🤣
MuHe cp is so cute❤️.
Thanks for the chapter.
Agreed 🤭
You’re welcome~ ❤
“But, generally speaking, the control player overcomes the explosive player, and the explosive player overcomes the late player. When the late lineup is compared with the control lineup, you can only rely on your own ability.” Geez qin mo could write the gamers version of The Art of War. Lol
Lol, game art of war, by Qin Mo. I think it will be good 🤣
Mu He is like Shu Bai of Canglan, but their reverse, and the Mu He’s personalities are like the Luo Zhang’s with Li Muran like Luo Wushang who is good in psychology and Shen He is like Zhang Shaohui who is hyper and also stupid hahahahaha
i’m guessing in the future, when hanmo retires, qin mo would probably give the captaincy to li muran. he has the brain of a commander, he’s calm, rational and very observant, and to think that he’s still only a newcomer. what more if he accumulates years of experience?