translator: Oyen
Other teams in the league who failed to enter the playoffs also came to the scene of today’s semi-finals. After watching the first round of the game, there was a heated discussion in the viewing room immediately——
“Qin Mo’s clever playstyle is really hard to defend against.” Lin Shuangcheng praised without hesitation.
Su Cheng, who sat next to him, added. “However, the key to deep-water lurking requires the cooperation of a field controller and a player with strong explosive power. Shen He and Pei Yu have accomplished this task very well.”
“Captain Lin, this tactic is not suitable for our team, right?” Song Changdong asked.
Lin Shuangcheng nodded, smiling and joking. “There is no long-distance control field in our team, all melee. If we sneak into the water to fight guerrilla warfare, we will drown ourselves before we kill the other party.”
Song Changdong imagined the five swordsmen of the Sword Song team being collectively drowned and couldn’t help laughing.
Seeing him happily laugh, Lin Shuangcheng replied. “Is it so funny?”
Song Changdong leaned to captain Lin’s ear and whispered. “Will Zhou Yanbing, who was drowned just now, have a psychological shadow on the water battle?”
Lin Shuangcheng glanced at him and found that this guy seemed to be seriously thinking about this problem. He couldn’t help but reach out and rub his hair, replying. “We should practice water battles more, otherwise you will drown when we encounter Mojue next season.”
“Oh.” Song Changdong nodded obediently.
Interlude’s Xie Changming nearby also took part in the discussion. “I can do the control field like Pei Yu, and I can do it better than him.” He looked back at the captain beside him and added. “Senior brother, can we try this playstyle too?”
“Of course. Our team has many long-range players. You are controlling the field underwater, I will assist in the output. We should be able to do underwater sneak attacks.” Su Cheng paused, and touched his chin thoughtfully, “Qin Mo’s playstyle today will give many captains new ideas. However, with today’s game, everyone will be prepared. When the home team selects the escort water map, the banned priority of the ‘Hidden Dragon Into The Water’ secret book will be very high, you may not get it.”
“That’s true.” Xie Changming scratched his head and replied. “But I think that after this season, the official is likely to update the secret books library. Maybe next year’s new expansion will have more secret books suitable for use in the water battle and enrich the tactical ideas.”
This guess was also very possible. If a game wanted to last for a long time, it was necessary to update the expansion every year, so as to keep old players and attract new players to join. There would be many places to update and adjust large-scale expansion, and it was possible to balance the most basic data of damages. In addition, it was possible to add equipment, secret books and even new sects.
Thinking of this, Su Cheng smiled. “Let’s wait for the official notice. Let’s study some new tactics during the holiday.”
The teams that entered the playoffs focused on the game in front of them, but those who failed to make it to the playoffs were not completely discouraged, but set their sights on next season.
*
Ling Xuefeng and Li Cangyu were also backstage, but instead of sitting with the young players of the Peerless Jianghu league, they sat in a separate private room.
In front of them was a big screen similar to a movie theater. Both of them were wearing VR glasses to watch the game, and the vivid visual effect was very shocking.
At the end of the game, Li Cangyu took off his glasses and looked back at Ling Xuefeng, who was still wearing glasses. “You look pretty handsome with glasses.”
Ling Xuefeng, who was praised, smiled slightly. “So are you.”
Li Cangyu laughed, patted his shoulder, and said, “Teaching a good apprentice like Qin Mo, you must be very proud now, right?”
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“What mode do you think he will choose?”
“Should they choose the Secret Letter mode?” Li Cangyu analysed, “Without Fire’s attack in Escort Mode is okay but they are not strong in defensive home game, certainly can not withstand Mojue’s onslaught. Without Fire’s strongest point lies in the melee sprint, it will be easier to grab Boss in secret letter mode, if they choose a map that is easy to fight, they still have a good chance of winning.”
“En, I think so too,” Ling Xuefeng quite agreed with his inference, “Treasure hunt mode should be decentralized, and Xiao Han’s one-on-one fighting ability is too strong, so there should be no team willing to risk playing one-on-one fighting with Mojue. On the whole, the secret letter has the greatest chance of winning.”
“It’s rare to hear you praise Xiao Han.” Li Cangyu smiled and added. “I should record it for Xiao Han.”
“I just praised him for his one-on-one skill, not for him.” Ling Xuefeng replied solemnly, “Xiao Han himself, I don’t like him.”
“You are very unhappy that Qin Mo was abducted, so seeing Xiao Han is not pleasing to the eye.” Li Cangyu smiled lightly. “Think about it, Xiao Han is my apprentice anyway, and it is better for Qin Mo to be abducted by him than by strangers like Lin Shuangcheng or Sang Jun, right?”
Lin and Sang, who watched the game backstage, sneezed at the same time.
Ling Xuefeng thought about the possibility of Li Cangyu’s words, and suddenly felt that Xiao Han didn’t seem to be that annoying?
*
Xiao Han was also sneezing wildly, and also sneezed three times consecutively. He rubbed his nose in confusion, walked to Qin Mo and asked. “Are you sure of the next game?”
Qin Mo nodded. “It’s going to be hard work for you.”
Xiao Han quickly waved his hand. “It’s nothing, I’m ready.”
He shook Qin Mo’s hand to encourage the other side, Qin Mo also gave him a smile, then returned to the command post under the signal of the referee.
In the commentary room, Ye Chao and the two commentators also started to get into the topic. “Welcome back everyone! This is the scene of the semi-finals of the Peerless Jianghu first professional league, Mojue VS Without Fire second round. Just now, Mojue defeated Without Fire by lurking in the water method, and the second round was Without Fire’s home game. Why don’t both guest commentators predict what mode captain Nie will choose?”
“It should be secret letter mode.” Xiao Sijing replied decisively.
“I agree with old Xiao.” Su Shilun smiled.
The tacit understanding between both of them made Ye Chao deeply feel the pressure of being a light bulb.
This time, no one got slapped in the face. Nie Yuzhu soon submitted the game mode—— Secret Letter.
Each team had its own preference and mode that they were good at. Without Fire got the highest winning rate in secret letter mode in regular season, followed by the treasure hunt mode. But it was not a wise choice to play treasure hunt mode with Mojue. First of all, Mojue had He Beiguang and Li Muran, two very difficult meat shield and healer, and there was basically no hope of seizing the treasure chest from them. Secondly, there was Xiao Han, the king of one-on-one battles. If they met Xiao Han alone, the treasure chest would be easily taken away.
No matter how to look at it, secret letter mode was the best choice for this round.
For the map, Nie Yuzhu chose ‘Qingqiu Plain’, which was a vast, flat prairie. When used as a secret letter mode, two camps would appear on the prairie, located in the northeast and southwest corners, as respawn and resurrection points for both players, as well as submission points for secret letter tasks.
The messenger respawned in the middle of the prairie. Players of both sides needed to stop and kill the messenger in the middle of the map to get the secret letter from him, and then took it back to their camps, to be calculated as task complete.
Nie Yuzhu’s idea of choosing this map was very clear—— there were many melee players in Without Fire team, and he was good at playing frontal attack. Since it was just frontal, it was natural that the simpler and flatter the map was, the better it would be. Otherwise, they would be blocked by map obstacles, which would interrupt their offensive rhythm.
The plain map secret letter mode was equivalent to grabbing Boss in the field, which could bring the melee attack from Without Fire team to the extreme.
After the map and mode were determined, the next step was to ban the secret books. This time it was Qin Mo’s turn to ban the secret book first.
As long as the messenger in secret letter mode was not killed, it would always wander around the field without a time limit. Moreover, the messenger’s blood volume was similar to the chief escort, which was the level of the small Boss in the field. Even without the output secret books, it was not difficult for the whole team to jointly kill him.
The key was how to successfully bring the secret letter back to their camp after grabbing the secret letter.
The players with the secret letter could not use qinggong, but must walk back slowly, which was sure to be surrounded by the opponent in the process. At this time, the control skill was very important.
Deceleration, silence, fear, immobility…
Group control secret books that could interfere with the interception of the other party had the highest priority in secret letter mode.
And those secret books of defense, healing, and output, which were very popular in the escort mode, should be selected later in the secret letter mode.
At present, some common used secret books were, the dizziness of ‘Sword Rain Fragrance’, the deceleration of ‘Merging Water and Sky’, the fear of ‘Bodhi Mantra’, ‘Scattered Chessboard’, ‘Besieged on All Sides’, the silence of ‘Music At Sunset’, the immobilization of ‘Confined Within a Drawn Circle’, and the chaos of ‘Tall Mountains Flowing Waters’.
With so many control secret books, it was impossible to ban them all.
The first thing Qin Mo banned was ‘Song of Everlasting Regret’, a single control secret book.
Seeing this, Ye Chao couldn’t help saying. “Song of Everlasting Regret is the longest control time among all the single control secret books, 5 seconds sleep control. Qin Mo bans this book first to prevent the other party from getting the Song of Everlasting Regret to make their opponent sleep in a team battle, delaying the delivery of the secret letter.”
Immediately afterwards, Qin Mo banned ‘Bodhi Mantra’ and ‘Sword Rain Fragrance’. The former was a secret book for group fear for 3 seconds and could be used by melee players; the latter was a group attack and group control that was very useful for swordsmen, Zhou Yanbing could use this smoothly and Qin Mo himself used it very often. When encountering this kind of secret book that both players like to use, Qin Mo chose to ban it—— neither of us should use it.
After the three ban boxes were filled, Qin Mo first picked the release control secret book ‘Cleansing Heart Mantra’—— this method was also very clever. After all, ‘Cleansing Heart Mantra’ was a universal release control secret book, no matter what control the other party used, it could be released by this secret book. Counter soldiers with arms, water with an earth weir, which was equivalent to directly abolishing the opponent’s group control.
Nie Yuzhu followed by selecting two secret books. He took away the silence of ‘Music At Sunset’ and the group immobilization of ‘Confined Within a Drawn Circle’.
Qin Mo then grabbed ‘Merging Water and Sky’ and ‘Tall Mountains Flowing Waters’, and Nie Yuzhu took all the remaining control secret books.
Both of them had the same way of thinking, first picked out all the control secret books, and then chose other secret books later.
As the control secret books were banned by Qin Mo, both sides finally only got 2-3 control secret books, and the remaining seats were supplemented by output, defense, and healing secret books.
After the secret books were selected, both sides submitted the lineup at the same time——
Soon, the names of the players and the choice of secret books of both sides appeared on the big screen.
On Without Fire’s side, apart from the iron triangle combination of Nie Yuzhu, Zhou Yanbing and Jing Yang, the other two were also melee, one bone fan flow and the other was iron claw flow, both of which were quite powerful melee outputs.
The pure melee group was the strongest lineup of their violent swords flow.
In terms of secret books, Nie Yuzhu and Zhou Yanbing respectively took the secret books of immobilization and silent control, while the other three took the output secret books.
Mojue’s lineup was the iron triangle defensive lineup of He Beiguang, Li Muran and Zhu Qingyue, plus Qin Mo and Xiao Han. Li Muran took the release control secret book, He Beiguang took defense, Qin Mo and Qingyue took control secret books, and Xiao Han took the invisibility secret book.
As soon as the lineup and secret books appeared, the audience was a little confused…
Wasn’t this the usual line-up of Mojue in escort mode? The combination of Xiao He, Muran and Qingyue, with T, healer and auxiliary, was really strong in defense.
But was it appropriate to put defensive formation in secret letter mode?
The secret letter mode was equivalent to grabbing the boss in the field. Whoever grabbed the boss first had a better chance of winning. The messenger wasn’t like the dungeon boss in online games that needed to be held by master T. He had no fixed hatred, his skills were mainly range attacks, it could be fought without master T and healer.
This mode was very fast-paced, and most teams would send more output. After all, the ownership of the Boss was determined according to the output data.
The messenger had 200,000 health, for example, Without Fire dealt 110,000 damage, while Mojue only dealt 90,000, then the dropped secret letter would belong to Without Fire. In this game, from the point of view of the lineup, Without Fire’s purpose was to kill messengers to get the first chance, but Mojue used a defensive lineup. Was it to give up the first wave of team battle to kill messengers and wait to intercept the secret letter?
If this was the first round of the game, netizens would probably complain that Qin Mo couldn’t come up with a new lineup, and his creativity had exhausted. But just now, Qin Mo had personally slapped netizens in the face—— he brought four newcomers and defeated Without Fire with a beautiful deep water lurking battle. Therefore, in the second round, he sent a strange lineup, and everyone was embarrassed to continue to complain.
The live broadcast room suddenly became very harmonious: “I originally wanted to ridicule god Mo, thinking that I was just slapped in the face in the last game, I had better not ridicule~”
“I don’t know what tricks god Mo will play, I will wait and just watch the game!”
“Maybe he has a strange tactic, god Mo’s mind is strange!”
“Qin Mo has a lot of crafty ideas, and the defensive lineup plays the secret letter mode, there may be a special playstyle!”
The netizens were in the fog, but Xiao Sijing saw through Qin Mo’s idea at a glance.
If he couldn’t understand what Qin Mo’s meant after the other side already sent out the lineup and matched secret books, then what kind of commentator was he?
However, Xiao Sijing did not intend to say it, because if he said it in advance, it would be boring to watch it later.
The key in this game was Xiao Han.
Qin Mo almost directly placed the bet on Xiao Han alone.
It was believed that Nie Yuzhu had a few guesses in his heart after seeing this, and he would certainly guard against Xiao Han. Let’s just see if Xiao Han could complete the task assigned by Qin Mo or not.
Of course, Xiao Han can do it~~! 😁
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