translator: Oyen
Many people expected that Mojue would win Sword Song in the first round, but most of the audience didn’t guess that Mojue would let Zhu Qingyue be the commander.
Even Chu Yan, who watched the live broadcast online, did not expect this.
Seeing Zhu Qingyue sit in the command position, Chu Yan felt that he was dazzling. However, on second thought, although Qingyue now stayed in Mojue team as an auxiliary, after all, he was once Pure Cleansing’s captain, and had experienced numerous competitions, large and small. His ability to interpret the war situation, as well as his sense of improvisation on the field, was not much worse than Twin Stars.
As his master, Chu Yan was very happy that Qingyue was recognised and respected in Mojue team.
Lin Shuangcheng took the mutual destruction secret book, he wanted to do suicide attack by stepping on Liu Hong’s traps, while taking away Mojue’s healer, but this was seen through by Zhu Qingyue. What’s even more rare was that he made arrangements ahead of time to let He Beiguang help Li Muran block the damage at a critical moment and exchanged Li Muran’s death with Xiao He’s death. From the point of view of the whole team and the characteristics of the escort mode, the effect of healer was much higher than a meat shield, and giving up the small to protect the big was also a choice that must be made as a field commander.
Qingyue made the best decision, which was also the key for Mojue to win the first round of the game.
Seeing Zhu Qingyue smiling and commanding the game calmly, Chu Yan felt a little proud in his heart, and couldn’t wait to fly to the big stage immediately to hug his apprentice.
However, he could only think about it. Now, he must stay in the VIP audience and watch the game in a low-key manner.
The intermission time passed quickly, and the second round of the game officially started.
Under Lin Shuangcheng’s comfort, Song Changdong had adjusted his mood and waited on the bench in high spirit, while Lin Shuangcheng walked back to the command position again.
This round was Sword Song’s home game, and the mode was submitted by Lin Shuangcheng.
To Qin Mo’s surprise, Lin Shuangcheng didn’t choose the ‘secret letter mode’ to compete for the BOSS, but the ‘treasure hunt mode’ which had not been used in the team stage so far.
According to official rules, the top four teams in the scoreboard ranking would be eligible to enter the playoffs to compete for trophies. The playoff stage was the Bo3 system, the first two rounds the captain could decide the competition mode, while the third round was a fixed ‘treasure hunt mode’. In the online game arena, there were only two modes: ‘Escort and Secret Letter’. The treasure hunt mode had not been popularised to online game clients for the time being.
At present, two weeks had passed since the team competition, and the regular season cycle had played 10 games for a total of 20 rounds, but no team had chosen the ‘treasure hunt mode’. The key reason was that many teams were still exploring this mode, and they did not dare to choose it rashly because they had not studied it thoroughly.
Lin Shuangcheng had a lot of courage to choose this ‘treasure hunt mode’ to fight with Mojue today—— the willful captain Lin probably wanted to be the first person to eat crabs. (T’N: trying some new things, which is usually dangerous, risky and uncertain)
After the mode was selected, he selected a treasure map from the map library.
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At that time, Xiao Han did not recognise Qin Mo, but from that moment on, he began to pay attention to ‘Ink Mark’ name and chatted with him from time to time. Later, the tacit cooperation when he joined hands to snatch Sword Song guild’s wild BOSS in Jianshen Valley made Xiao Han finally determine that Ink Mark was the Qin Mo that he had missed for three years.
It obviously just happened in online games last year, but now it seemed like a long time ago…
Lin Shuangcheng also came up in the Telecom district 1, and he clearly knew about Qin Mo and Xiao Han’s past. By choosing this map today, he didn’t know whether it was intentional or unintentional, but memories of the past were on Qin Mo’s mind instead. It was a rare time to get along with Xiao Han in online games. Now, at the competition stage, there was no longer the mood to sit on the top of the mountain and watch the scenery at that time.
The lineup submitted by Lin Shuangcheng was still the five swordsmen.
But, Qin Mo still didn’t react, seemingly thinking about something.
Qin Mo’s face was magnified on the big screen, and the audience found that captain Qin, who had always been calm, was distracted. Although the mind wandered for only a few seconds, Qin Mo’s dazed expression was quickly screenshotted by fans to make emoticons, and many fans thought that “The dazed god Mo is much cuter than the cold god Mo!”
“What is he thinking when his mind is distracted for a few seconds?”
“He can’t be scared by Lin Shuangcheng, right? Or is he not sure about the treasure hunt mode?”
Everyone made a guess, but no one could guess that Qin Mo just suddenly remembered some interesting past events.
After returning to his mind, Qin Mo immediately calmed his expression and without hesitation submitted a list of the lineup—— In the second round, Qin Mo no longer stood on the sidelines, but personally took command. Xiao Han was still the main output, He Beiguang stayed to defend. Last round players, Liu Hong, Li Muran and Qingyue had a rest, replaced with Shen He and Pei Yu.
This lineup made Ye Chao somewhat difficult to understand. “He sends a meat shield, He Beiguang, and four outputs of Han, Mo, Shen and Yu. Without Qingyue and Muran, the defense is not the strongest. Without Liu Hong, the attack is not the strongest. I don’t quite understand Qin Mo’s idea.”
“I have never quite understood his idea. I have given up guessing.” Liang Ru complained in a low voice.
“Indeed,” Ye Chao smiled slightly. “Maybe this is the way for Mojue to play in treasure hunt mode, let us watch the game.”
Following the secret book selection stage, different from escort mode with clear defensive and offensive strategies, the secret letter mode pursued a wave of team battle and captured the Boss. In treasure hunt mode, there was currently no specific way to play, because the treasures of the treasure hunt mode were relatively scattered, the ten treasure chests were to be found separately or to act together, it all depended on the arrangement of the command, and it was difficult to guess the opponent’s strategy in advance.
Qin Mo couldn’t guess Lin Shuangcheng’s idea to send five swordsmen. However, in the early stage of treasure hunt mode, once the players were scattered on the map, there would probably be more small-scale battles. The priority of banning large-scale group attack secret books was not so high, but the secret books of single target attack and single control needed to be considered.
Lin Shuangcheng’s idea was obviously similar to Qin Mo’s. In the secret books selection stage, both of them took the single target attack secret books, group chaos, group silence and so on, and took them until the end.
Soon, both sides decided on the players and their respective secret books, and the game officially started amidst the cheers of the audience.
‘Leisurely Villa Treasure Secret Place’ map was exactly the same as the map scene in the game, except that it was daytime in the game, and the game map was made into a night scene. There were dimly lit lanterns hanging in the villa, and cicadas singing from time to time. This map in the middle of the night added a bit of quietness and mystery.
As the players loaded, the mini map showed the location of ten treasure chests, including four in the east, south, west and north rooms, two in the pond at the connection between the front and backyard, and four in the backyard rockery, dry well, forest and garden.
From the perspective of God, they could find that the distribution of ten treasure chests was uneven. Some treasure chests were very close to each other, while others were very far apart. It was necessary for the commander to comprehensively consider which player would take which treasure chest.
Before the players were loaded on the map, Ye Chao took advantage of this time to explain. “There is no treasure hunt mode on the online game server yet, but I believe most of the audience have seen this year’s carnival. In fact, the league treasure hunt mode is close to the carnival game. The game is limited to 10 minutes, and as soon as the time is up, the treasure chests of both teams will be automatically settled, and which sides have the most treasure chests will win. There are two ways to get the treasure chest: the first is to go to the location where the treasure chest is refreshed on the map to pick it up; In addition, you can also kill the player who is carrying the treasure chest and get the treasure chest he is carrying.”
“The players carrying the treasure chest will have the symbol mark on the top of his head, and the number of treasure chests can be stacked.” Liang Ru added. “For example, player A is holding five treasure chests, and once he dies, the five treasure chests in his hand will be automatically transferred to the hands of the person who killed him.”
“The carnival game was a battle between teams consisting of pairs of great gods.” Ye Chao continued. “Some players got too many treasure chests at the beginning and became public enemies, they were quickly killed by the attack. But there were not many treasure chests at the beginning, so they finally took advantage of the fisherman. However, that time was a big team battle, which was different from the league. The league was a battle between two teams. In order to prevent the treasure chest from being robbed, five players could carry the treasure chest separately. Or let one person carry the treasure chests and the other teammates are responsible for the protection.”
“I heard that when the major teams practice treasure hunt mode in private, most of them adopt the strategy of dispersing first and then regrouping.” Liang Ru added. “Generally, each person will take a treasure chest first, and then find a way to grab the opposite chest after regrouping. It is rare to see what you said ‘One person brings a treasure chest and other teammates protect it’”
“I just put forward this possibility.” Ye Chao smiled.
At this time, the players of both sides finally loaded in the map. Ye Chao and Liang Ru also stopped discussing and began to concentrate on watching the game.
The start of the treasure hunt mode was different from escort and secret letter mode, which all the players of both teams respawned at resurrection points together. Instead, everyone was randomly scattered and respawned at any position on the treasure map. It might be a teammate next door, or might be respawned with an opponent both left and right. There was a certain element of luck in the start, which was also the excitement of the treasure hunt mode.
The place where Qin Mo respawned was right in the pond at the intersection of the front and backyard.
He quickly opened the mini map and took a look. Xiao Han was in the front courtyard’s east room, Shen He was in the south room, while Pei Yu and He Beiguang were in the backyard’s rockery and forest.
“Take the treasure chest near you, and gather here at the pond!” Qin Mo gave the command resolutely.
The location of the pond was just the center of five players, so everyone could regroup as quickly as possible.
Qin Mo jumped into the pond and quickly dived into the depths of the pond—— According to the marks on the mini map, there were two treasure chests in the pond. After diving 10 metres into the water, he saw a glittering chest hidden at the bottom of the water. Qin Mo swam decisively towards the box and took it, thus showing a golden chest mark on the top of his head.
After taking a treasure chest, Qin Mo didn’t rush to get out of the water. It would take a little time for his teammates to gather. It was better to take this opportunity to get another treasure chest in the west of the pond. Thinking of this, he quickly headed west.
However, as soon as he reached the treasure chest spawn point, he just saw that the treasure chest had disappeared.
There was only one explanation. Sword Song’s player was nearby and had already taken the treasure chest away.
Qin Mo quickly adjusted his vision, but before he could make this operation, he saw a sharp blue sword slip past his eyes——
It was ‘Sword Spirit Heart’ body settlement control!
As a Hanhua Sword sect’s player, Qin Mo knew the skill and its effect very well. It was Song Changdong who shot. His Galaxy sword was ice blue, and there was a trace of ice blue sword qi when the skill was shot before. He just stood behind the side that Qin Mo didn’t see, and settled Qin Mo with ‘Sword Spirit Heart’ skill.
Closely followed, another fiery red sword came head-on—— Lin Shuangcheng was also nearby!
Lin Shuangcheng’s weapon Red Heaven, as bright as a red flame, the violent style of short sword flow was brought to the fullest by him.
Xiao Song controlled him, and Lin Shuangcheng did the attack, both of the joined hands, unexpectedly hit Qin Mo’s health to 30%.
“Xiao Song,” Lin Shuangcheng whispered, “attack and kill Qin Mo.”
“En!” Song Changdong nodded excitedly.
His fingers quickly pressed to the keyboard, decisively released longsword flow’s highest damage skill ‘Unrivalled Sword’ directly killed Qin Mo in second.
—— [River Of No Return] has killed [Ink Mark]!
Seeing the message released on the screen, Song Changdong was so happy that he could personally kill his most admired idol, Qin Mo, on the field.
Qin Mo was also quite helpless, he did not expect Sword Song’s Lin Shuangcheng and Song Changdong happened to respawn nearby, after the both of them met, diving into the pond to find the treasure chest, Qin Mo caught off guard by Lin-Song double sword siege, natural his double fists were hard to beat four hands.
But it didn’t matter, it was only one minute after the game started, and his teammates would be here soon.
He was killed so fast… 😅
Thank you for the chapter~~! 💜💜💜
Lol, Qin Mo dies first and at the beginning of the game 🤣
You’re welcome~ ❤
Montoneros!!! Bullies, but i kind of get it. They took a heavenly chance to kill God Mo. Aaah this is so thrilling!!
Thanks for the chapter!!! 😘❤️❤️❤️
Song changdong just became a fat cow with two treasure chests. Can Lin Shuangcheng protect him?~