translator: Oyen
After a week’s training, all Mojue’s players came to Yangzhou on Friday night.
Interlude team was located in the beautiful Yangzhou city, which was said to be Su Cheng and Xie Changming’s hometown. Mojue’s team members had never been to this city before. On the way to the hotel by car, looking at the scenery outside the window, Xiao Han couldn’t help saying. “It’s really wise for sister Xiang to book a ticket back on Sunday night. There is still one day after the game, we can go to the surrounding scenic spots.”
Qin Mo turned over to look at him. “You’re actually in a good mood, still thinking about traveling when playing games?”
“I’ve never been here before. I just want to go around with you.” Xiao Han replied bluntly.
Sitting in the back row, Shen He chimed in. “I have never been to Yangzhou either, I want to go around too!”
“Alright,” Qin Mo was helpless. “Let’s have a rest after going back to the hotel in the evening, and when we finish the game tomorrow, we’ll go out to play the day after tomorrow, just in time to relax.”
Shen He cheered excitedly, and the other teenagers also looked a little excited.
They had always been in a hurry when playing games in other cities before. At Nanjing’s game before, they even took a bus to the airport immediately after the game. Seeing Lin Shuangcheng’s Sword Song players having fun after playing the games, Qin Mo also felt that it was time for everyone to relax a little.
***
On Saturday afternoon, the fourth week of the professional league competition officially began.
The first game of the week starts at 3pm in the afternoon, and it was Without Fire team VS Sky team in Guangzhou.
At the beginning of the three-players competition, when Without Fire met Sky, it coincided with Yuan Xi being injured in a car accident and leaving the team. In order to show respect, Nie Yuzhu himself did not play. In that game, the first two rounds were tied 1:1, and in the final round of the tiebreaker, no matter who won or lost, they could only get 2 points, which would not have any impact on the team’s ranking. Nie Yuzhu and Qiu Zongping calmly sent newcomers to practice. As a result, Sky team won Without Fire instead.
At that time, both captains agreed to have another head-on battle in the team stage. Now, Yuan Xi was back in the team, and Sky team could finally produce the strongest team battle strength.
Qin Mo and Xiao Han watched the live broadcast of the game in the hotel together.
During the team stage, Qin Mo paid little attention to other teams because he was busy dealing with opponents every week. Looking at today’s game, he mainly wanted to see Yuan Xi’s state and the team battle strength of the Without Fire team. The result really didn’t disappoint him—— he saw a wonderful match!
The combination of Sky’s double summoners and milk god was very powerful in defensive mode. The whole team was like a solid shield, which made it difficult to break through, while the impact of the three Without Fire’s close combat, coupled with the cooperation of two offensive teammates, was more like a sharp spear.
Without Fire won a game in secret letter mode, Sky pulled back a game in escort mode, and the both sides drew. It could also be found from this game that Yuan Xi was really recovering well…
Seeing Qin Mo touching his chin thoughtfully, Xiao Han couldn’t help asking. “What are you thinking about?”
“Xiao Yuan is in good condition, and I think he is playing more fiercely than before, but he is calmer.” Qin Mo replied.
“He will always grow up after experiencing so many things and losing such a big face in front of us.” Xiao Han sighed lightly. “Seeing that he cooperates with Qiu Zongping very tacitly, his obsession with Qiu Zongping… Has it been put down?”
“I guess only he knows about it.” Yuan Xi’s face just appeared on the big screen. After being injured in the car accident, he stayed in the team to recuperate for a period of time. His appearance recovered well, but he seemed to lose a lot of weight. Looking at Yuan Xi’s face, Qin Mo felt distress. “I hope he can go through it and let go.”
“Don’t worry,” Xiao Han patted Qin Mo’s shoulder. “I think he is in good condition now. When we play with Sky in two weeks, maybe he can surprise us.”
“En,” Qin Mo nodded. “Stop talking about him, let’s take everyone to dinner, and then go to the stadium.”
***
The match between Mojue and Interlude was arranged in the prime time at 8pm, and Yangzhou’s home court was full house.
At the beginning, Falling Flower’s team logo was a purple wreath design, while Interlude team had a green willow leaf logo——Su Cheng really learned 100% of his master’s literature and art style. Many fans who came to watch the game had willow leaves on their faces, and the field was full of cheering signs in a small and fresh style, some of which were also inlaid with flowers and plants, which was really refreshing.
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“It feels like this is not suitable for playing games, it is more suitable to recite poetry!” Shen He complained.
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“Pa’r ‘atf olgfkbgxr klii ub vbkc ab Tjcuhtbe lc Zjgmt’, vbc’a ajwqfg atf qbfw ja gjcvbw.” Hlc Zb mbggfmafv tlw.
“Did Li Bai write this poem because it was more fun to come to Yangzhou in March than in April?” Xiao Han smiled.
Qin Mo was helpless. “Because Meng Haoran went to Yangzhou in March, he wrote poems to bid farewell to his friends.”
As they chatted, a gentle voice suddenly came. “Teacher Qin is teaching god Han to read poetry again? It’s really interesting.”
Looking back, it was Su Cheng, Interlude’s captain, who wore a fresh and clean team uniform, white background decorated in green leaf design, which made his whole profile more gentle and elegant.
“Captain Su.” Qin Mo nodded politely.
Su Cheng replied. “It’s time for the game, does god Han want to improvise poems?”
Xiao Han smiled. “Forget it. I can’t embarrass teacher Qin.”
Just as the staff came in and called the players of both sides to play, everyone stopped the topic and stepped onto the big stage one after another.
Qin Mo and Su Cheng shook hands to show their friendship, and then went to the soundproof room to make preparations.
In the commentary room, Ye Chao and Liang Ru began to introduce the players of the both teams, analysed the characteristics of their respective lineups, and finally released the current scoreboard to the audience thoughtfully. “Mojue is still in first place now, and the gap with Dynasty and Without Fire is less than 5 points. As long as they don’t play well in a game, they are likely to be overtaken. Interlude currently ranks seventh, which is very close to National Grace’s points. Although the overall score of Mojue is much higher than Interlude, the strength of Interlude is still very strong in the team stage.”
“That’s right,” Liang Ru nodded in agreement. “The guqin and flute ensemble is a kind of kite tactics with long-range control field. Because the flute player has many control skills, while the guqin player has many large-scale and high damage group attack skills. Once they are being kited by Interlude, they will fall into a very passive situation.”
“Another Interlude’s play style is to kill the opponent’s off-guard with teleportation flow and rely on the teleportation secret book to complete the team’s instantaneous movement… However, in the team battle stage, because the secret books can be disabled, the first game of Interlude’s home game, Qin Mo should not give the teleportation secret books to Su Cheng.”
On the big screen, there was a prompt that the players on both sides were ready. Ye Chao quickly greeted. “Hello everyone, the second game in the fourth week of the professional league team competition, Mojue VS Interlude will start soon, let’s move our eyes back to the game room!”
According to the usual practice, the first hand in the first round would be the one in the home court, Su Cheng was obviously ready, he quickly submitted the game mode and map of the first round to the referee.
He submitted ‘Secret Letter Mode’, and the map was ‘Clear Moon Mountain Stream’—— this map didn’t appear many times in the competition, and it was also the first time Qin Mo encountered it. Clear Moon Mountain Stream was a water battle map with a water area of more than 90%. From a God’s perspective, its shape was similar to that of a full moon. Like many water battle maps, there were a lot of duckweed for players to stand in the ‘Clear Moon Mountain Stream’, but the distribution of duckweed was very scattered, and the distance between them was more than 20 meters.
The distance of 20 metres was a very critical value for the Interlude team, because the attack range of the guqin and flute sound waves of Luoying Valley was exactly 20 metres. And Su Cheng’s weapon ‘Broken String’ had a bonus of attack range, so his attack range would reach 22 metres. In this way, he could stand at a distance and use the kiting tactic to consume the close combat players’ health.
“From the choice of map and mode, Interlude should play with a long-range kite play in this round.” Ye Chao commented. “The duckweed is stuck at a distance of 20 metres, and Mojue team’s melee can’t reach them. Su Cheng can stand in the distance and play the guqin with peace of mind. The large-scale high-damage sound wave attack can easily reduce the blood volume of Mojue team.”
“Seeing Su Cheng choose such a map, should Mojue bring a healer?” Liang Ru speculated.
“I also feel that without a healer, the pressure is too great.” Ye Chao agreed.
Su Cheng quickly submitted the lineup of this game. Apart from Su Cheng and Xie Changming, he also brought another guqin player, a poison master and a meat shield—— equivalent to a combination of one main T and four outputs. This train of thought was very clear, the meat shield blocked the damage in the front row and blocked the opponent from approaching, and the remaining four violent outputs, Xie Changming was in charge of controlling the field, and the other three players attacked Mojue team.
In ‘Secret Letter Mode’, some teams just directly kill the messenger without taking care of the opposite side, and then escort the teammates who get the secret letter to the destination. However, according to Qin Mo’s understanding of Su Cheng and the competition style of Interlude in the past few weeks, Su Cheng usually fought in the team battle in the secret letter mode first, and then used the time difference to kill the messenger and grab the secret letter after they killed the opponent in team battle. Although it was slower, it was more stable and had a higher fault tolerance rate. Not as bad as all players tried to kill the messenger to get the secret letter only to be killed by the opponent to intercept the secret letter.
Qin Mo immediately sent out Mojue’s lineup, including a meat shield He Beiguang, Xiao Han and Qin Mo two melee output, an auxiliary Zhu Qingyue, and a healer Li Muran.
This lineup was exactly the same as the lineup when playing defense in escort mode!
Ye Chao was stunned for a while, then returned to his senses. “I remember that Mojue sends the extreme output lineup of Han, Mo, Hong, Pei and Shen, five output players in secret letter mode once to directly kill the messenger and win. But today, Qin Mo obviously doesn’t want to do this. It turned out to be the ultimate defensive formation of Xiao He, Qingyue and Muran. It seems that he wants to fight a defensive counterattack?!”
“Probably because the opponent has no healer, Mojue does not need to send out too much output, Twin Stars is enough.” Liang Ru earnestly analysed. “On the contrary, the attack power on the opposite side is very fierce. Let Xiao He defend in the front row, Qingyue and Muran in the back row to assist in defense. In this case, it will be very difficult for Interlude to kill Mojue in seconds. It is also a very good strategy for Qin Mo to seize the opportunity to fight back.”
The map of ‘Clear Moon Mountain Stream’ was very beneficial to the Interlude team. Their frontal output wouldn’t let their opponent off lightly, Qin Mo’s choice of defense was also very sensible.
Followed by secret books’ banning stage. Qin Mo did not hesitate to directly ban the big group teleportation secret book ‘Waning Lights’, and immediately banned the group blinking secret book ‘Moonlight Illuminate Water’, these two secret books were the key to teleportation flow. Qin Mo obviously didn’t want Su Cheng to play teleportation tactics on the dominant map—— Interlude originally had many long-range careers and had a long attack range. If the whole team could teleport, it would be hard for Mojue’s melee to fight.
The third banned secret book, Qin Mo chose ‘Makeup In Autumn’, which was also the most high damage group attack secret book.
His first grab was Xiao Han’s commonly used single attack secret book ‘Bloody Hand’. Qin Mo had a clear idea in the secret book stage, which was to tell Su Cheng clearly: as long as you can’t kill us in one wave, my family Xiao Han can kill you in a second.
Su Cheng also felt the pressure from Qin Mo’s choice—— Xiao Han’s output was indeed very explosive, and the most feared thing about long-range careers was being close to assassins. Qin Mo’s defensive counterattack lineup was very cleverly arranged, the map advantage that was beneficial to Interlude was minimized.
After careful consideration, Su Cheng quickly took two group attack secret books to maximize the output of the whole team.
Qin Mo continued to take the healing and single output secret books.
Both people picked one after another, quickly got all the books in the secret books library, and the players from both sides selected the secret books and then collectively transmitted them to the game map.
***
‘Clear Moon Mountain Stream’ map had a night scene, with a full moon hanging in the sky, and the moonlight was pleasant. Occasionally, there was a breeze blowing, which made silver fine ripples on the water surface.
The duckweed on the water surface was relatively large and eight players could stand at it at the same time. The respawn points of both players were in the gazebo in the southeast and northwest corner of the map, while the respawn point of the messenger was in the gazebo in the middle of the map.
Players from both sides all rushed towards the middle of the map, but they didn’t start to hit the messenger, but started a team battle directly as soon as they met!
Relying on the advantage of long-distance attack, Su Cheng stood on the duckweed 20 metres away and directly used ‘Zhuangzi Dreams of Being a Butterfly’. The guqin’s sound was heard, and countless purple butterflies flew out from Su Cheng’s strings, instantly surrounding Mojue’s front row position!
He Beiguang, Xiao Han, and Qin Mo were all affected by sleep control. Zhu Qingyue casually used a skill to remove the sleep effect.
Xiao He reacted very quickly, after all, he studied with master Zhu Qingyue during this period of time, and he knew that Qingyue would be able to release control as soon as possible, so when he was being controlled, his hand was pressed on the skill key in advance. As soon as the sleep effect on his body disappeared, he immediately pressed two skills—— Bloody Scent, Only Me!
Absorbing all damage, rebounding all damage!
As soon as he opened his anti damage skill, the green sound wave and the black poison gas absorbed in He Beiguang and then all of them were rebounded back to the attacker.
Fortunately, Su Cheng was well prepared to ask everyone not to make big moves during the first wave of attacks, but to test them with only small skills. Therefore, He Beiguang’s shield did not cause much damage.
It was not until the shield disappeared that Su Cheng ordered. “Attack with all your strength! Kill Xiao Han and Qin Mo first!”
As soon as Xie Changming listened to the instructions, he immediately opened the group freezing of ‘Cold River Snow’!
However, Zhu Qingyue expected it earlier and opened ‘Cyan Rain Curtain’ directly—— with the soft rain curtain falling, He Beiguang, Xiao Han and Qin Mo, who stood in the front row, all entered Zhu Qingyue’s invincible array scope.
Interlude team’s attack once again lost its effectiveness.
Qingyue’s invincible array lasted for 5 seconds, which was enough time for Li Muran to stack blood buffs on his teammates in the front row. He quickly added blood buffs to the three people in the front, so that even if the invincible array of Qingyue disappeared, it was not so easy for Interlude to kill Han-Mo in a second!
It wasn’t until this moment that Su Cheng discovered that the map he had chosen had pitted himself.
Because the distance between the duckweeds was 20 meters, Mojue’s players used this map feature to disperse their positions. He Beiguang, Qin Mo, and Xiao Han stood in front, and Zhu Qingyue and Li Muran stood on the duckweed 20 metres away. In this way, both of them could cast the skill and heal without any interference, and with a distance of 40 metres from Qingyue and Muran, Interlude’s players couldn’t interrupt them at all!
In a very comfortable environment to cast auxiliary arrays and healing, directly teach them to behave!
Xie Changming’s field control skills were either removed by the healer or blocked by the Zhu Qingyue’s invisible array.
Su Cheng finally released the group attack sound wave with the highest damage. As a result, Zhu Qingyue set up a defensive array for the whole team, the damage was halved, and Li Muran opened another ‘Medicine Practice’, and healed… the whole team full health again!
The audience who watched the game saw that Interlude had been playing for a long time, and the whole team was still full in health, they could not help brushing 6666 to the milk dad and auxiliary in a row.
Ye Chao smiled. “Captain Su probably wants to vomit blood very much now. The original intention of choosing this map is to rely on the distance advantage to kite the opponent, and four long-distance waves break out to kill the front row in seconds, so as to establish the advantage in numbers. However, he did not expect that Qin Mo would send the defensive formation of the ‘Iron Triangle’ in the secret letter mode—— He Beiguang’s defensive shield and rebound skills, Zhu Qingyue’s invincible array and defensive array, and Li Muran’s super-fast milk dad. No matter how strong your attack power is, under the premise of the existence of these three people, it is obviously impossible to kill Han-Mo in second.”
“The most important thing is that the positions of Li Muran and Qingyue are really good.” Liang Ru added. “There is no interference at all, and they can use their skills smoothly.”
“Qin Mo’s targeted lineup has completely ruined the map advantage of Interlude. Xiao Han and Qin Mo have not made a move yet, obviously waiting for the opportunity…” Ye Chao added.
As soon as the words fell, Xiao Han suddenly jumped into the water, and Qin Mo also jumped into the water at the same time. The consistency of their movements could be compared with the men’s double team of the national diving team, and the audience also gave a row of flowers emoticons and joked “God Han and god mo can try the men’s double three-meter jumping off plank!”
“The diving movements are all exactly the same. they shouldn’t be called Twin Stars, they should really be called twins!”
Both of them jumped into the water at the same time, it was because they found the best opportunity—— the other party’s control skills were all in cooldowns!
Xiao Han and Qin Mo swam quickly under the water with qinggong, swam under the duckweed and quietly around the rear. Su Cheng sensed that it was not good, but it was too late, because, at the same time, He Beiguang also suddenly jumped up, and the skill of ‘Sweeping Eight Wastelands’ would knock down the front row and slam into the back row aggressively!
Zhu Qingyue and Li Muran also took action, and they came to the duckweed in front of them. Zhu Qingyue suddenly threw out his plain umbrella and rotated three times around Su Cheng.
The execution of all Mojue’s players made the audience worship. The five people acted almost at the same time and cooperated with each other in an orderly manner.
After Zhu Qingyue stacked three layers of weakness to Su Cheng, Qin Mo and Xiao Han just jumped up from the water. Qin Mo started with the silence of ‘Heaven Sun Combo’, while Xiao Han divided out five shadows without restraint to encircle Su Cheng directly!
Twin Stars cooperated with the output and cut into the opponent’s back row instantly!
Interlude’s meat shield was controlled by He Beiguang, and several other crispy long-range player’s control skills happened to cooldown. Under Qingyue’s buff array, Twin Stars joined hands to do explosive output, and Xiao Han opened all his explosive skills, killing Su Cheng directly in one breath.
——[Thousand Miles Ice] has killed [Morning Breeze Lingering Moon]!
After Su Cheng died, Xiao Han kept a close watch at Xie Changming beside him, and Qin Mo also aimed at Xie Changming. With the penetration of ‘Drifting Sword’, the ‘Unrivalled Sword’ targeting attack, and the outbreak of Xiao Han’s ‘Meteor’ and ‘Deadly Ice Silkworm’, Xie Changming was instantly KO.
By the time Interlude’s meat shield players reacted, the back row had completely collapsed.
The newcomer was ashamed. “Sorry captain, I can’t stop it…”
“Nevermind,” Su Cheng replied helplessly. “They act too suddenly, and it’s normal that you can’t stop Twin Stars. This game is a mistake in my tactical arrangement, and I should have thought of it a long time ago…”
Sure enough, compared with his master, he was still too young. Originally wanted to use the terrain advantage to play kite flow tactics, but forgot that such terrain might also be used by the opponent in turn, especially opponents like Qin Mo who had strong tactical awareness.
Su Cheng took a deep breath. “Everyone, let’s just adjust to play the second round. In the second round, Qin Mo couldn’t ban the secret books, so let him see the real teleportation playstyle of our Interlude.”
Ooooo good job, our master Tactician Qin Mo~
This lineup ‘Iron Triangle’ is so powerful~
Btw, I’m worried about Yuan Xi… 😥
Thank you for the chapter 💜💜💜
The whole team is so in sync.