Editor: Decembery
As the third round was about to begin, the audience had a feeling in the bottom of their hearts that the Eagle Riders wouldn’t be able to win this game. The two new players Lu Cun and Lin Jinxi’s performance in the previous round were too disappointing, such that even the audience members who didn’t like Qiu Yu couldn’t help but admit without Qiu Yu anchoring the team, it would be extremely difficult for the current lineup to win against Infinite.
[They really are relying on an Omega to win. It’s over for the Eagle Riders.]
[My heart goes out to god Mu, the Eagle Riders have terrible luck this year.]
[Heh, why are we still calling him “god Mu”? Not once has he led the team to victory without Qiu Yu! Is he still worthy of a whole band of fans protecting him? What even is this? An Alpha player’s privilege?]
[Is this how you understand the game? Don’t yap away if you don’t know anything. Please remember that Century’s Finale isn’t a game where a single person’s abilities can obtain victory. If Mu Feibai wasn’t holding up the team, the final two group confrontations in that last game wouldn’t have ended in their favor! It was obviously because Du Chen couldn’t beat Wu Song so they had no advantage at all in the jungle. Their energy levels remained around the warning line, what does this have anything to do with god Mu? No matter how strong he is, he can’t beat five others by himself! Even Qiu Yu can’t, he’s been targeted and killed by three people in the past as well!]
[Stop arguing! Stop arguing—Oh my—God Mu’s getting started!]
[Fellow students still arguing, stop and quickly look at the broadcast! Mu Feibai took down a triple kill like a descending celestial and even chased after the fourth one afterwards! He’s undoubtedly restored to the throne!]
[That series of operations from the team were definitely super super awesome, just… has Du Chen been possessed by god Qiu’s ghost?]
At the same time, the onsite commentator’s tone was also overflowing with excitement as he spoke with the speed and breath control of a rapper:
“This is the replay of the team confrontation just now. We can see that under Du Chen’s cover, Mu Feibai was able to cut between their enemy’s formation! Simultaneously as he head-shotted Wu Song, he hid himself in Liu Ruihan’s blind spot while Du Chen crashed through to mess up Zhu Fei’s rhythm, forcing the injured Zhu Fei out from behind cover—Mu Feibai killed Zhu Fei! Liu Ruihan is trying to get in close for some melee combat, but Mu Feibai has reversed the situation and killed him instead! Mu Feibai has discovered Wang Zejia and is cooperating with Du Chen to encircle—what a shame that Zou Yunran came forward to escort Wang Zejia, who has now escaped.”
“The. God. Of. War. Is. Back ahhhhh! Mu Feibai and Du Chen cooperated seamlessly and accomplished a beautiful triple kill!”
The audience’s attention was brought back to the competition.
As the game progressed, they gradually realised that the Eagle Riders seemed a little different from before. Perhaps it was a shift on the commander’s side, now the team’s pace when attacking and defending suddenly became a bit incomprehensible—the Eagle Riders’ actions seemed more like they were leading the opponents around the map for fun than a fully committed confrontation. Retreating when the enemy advances, conducting hit-and-run attacks when the enemy is still—as long as there was a gap in defense, they would rush in and start a round of explosions.
Infinite’s attacks looked as though they were progressing as planned however, in reality, they had long been irritated by the Eagle Riders’ unusual choice of cards to play.
“Did their commander change?” Wu Song grumbled, “That shouldn’t be, their entire team is full of new players. Who else can command?”
“No idea.” Liu Ruihan had just revived, and was a bit infuriated, “Maybe Mu Feibai still has some cards up his sleeves.”
On the opposite side, Mu Feibai stood behind cover at an elevated location, observing movements around him.
This was his first time trying to form a serious strategy during a game instead of fighting based on intuition.
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As for the target of the ambush… Wu Song was a cautious and experienced player, so definitely not suitable. However, Liu Ruihan does get in over his head quite easily when fighting, so they could try to draw him into a trap.
The entirety of Team Infinite, from the coach to the members, did not expect Mu Feibai, whose style of command has already settled after two years of professional league, would start playing shady.
This was until Liu Ruihan fell into traps twice and the Eagle Riders’ energy levels almost caught up to that of Infinite’s. Only then did Wu Song suddenly realise—he immediately changed strategies to try and suppress the Eagle Riders again. And then when Infinite finally started getting back on their feet and began to advance fiercely towards the Eagle Riders’ city defense area, Mu Feibai… called for a pause.
Wu Song frowned, frustrated. “…Fudge!”
Liu Ruihan’s face darkened, “What the hell is he trying to accomplish? Is it really to use any and all methods to drag the game on?”
Wu Song quickly tried to comfort his family’s team members, “Ai, don’t get riled up ah, stay steady. More than half of their team is made up of people freshly recruited from the youth training camp. There’s no way Mu Feibai can rely on himself to win a game, so as long as we stay steady, they won’t be able to turn the tides.”
The truth was indeed just as Wu Song said. After the break ended, Infinite quickly regained their rhythm and the Eagle Rider’s two attempts to retaliate were negated. They took down the last two defense towers in front of the Eagle Riders’ city defense area.
At this time, the game had already been dragged past thirty minutes.
Counting the rest between games and the mid-game pauses, Mu Feibai obtained a total of 82 minutes of treatment for Qiu Yu.
Qiu Yu’s massage treatment was actually finished a while ago. He was currently wearing his competition suit while sitting on the infirmary bed, wrapped in a blanket and with VR glasses on, watching the battle.
He missed Mu Feibai’s triple kill at the beginning of the game, nor did he see Mu Feibai using Lu Cun and Lin Jinxi to dig pits, however, he was able to notice Mu Feibai’s change from observing just a mere ten minutes of the game. Indeed, there might be some unforeseen surprises when an exceptional and capable soldier starts to use strategies to complement their intuition.
It seemed that Mu Feibai was listening during his “classes” after all.
It’s just that the strategies were lacking in some practical battle experience and looked a little stiff as of now. But on the plus side, Infinite seemed just unused to Team Eagle Riders using this kind of rhythm and looked just as stiff.
The game progressed to the 35th minute. Infinite started two group battles, however, they both ended with half of the Eagle Riders somehow escaping and Infinite couldn’t achieve the final victory. It was Team Infinite who had been on the attack but ended up feeling suffocated—the members each felt flames of anger burning in their hearts.
“Captain, let’s go all in.“ Liu Ruihan suggested in the team channel, “We’re at a significant advantage in energy levels anyway, we won’t be at a disadvantage even if we go all in! Do we have to stay steady every time we don’t kill Mu Feibai? He’s made up his mind to hide behind the lines, and are we just going to let ourselves be delayed like this?”
Wu Song considered it seriously for a while and concluded that they had a good chance of winning. He nodded his head and decided to commence a battle where they won’t retreat until the enemy team was completely annihilated.
“Team Infinite is advancing with quite the momentum!”
“We can see that Wu Song has led Zhu Fei and Wang Zejia to take a detour on the eastern side of the map, while Liu Ruihan and Zou Yunran headed west to tackle the Eagle Riders from both sides—it seems they want to take them down in one fell swoop! Zhu Fei is the first to spot Zhou Shu in his sniper position, will he be cut off? Beaut—Mu Feibai!”
“Mu Feibai has predicted Zhu Fei’s judgment! He and Zhou Shu cooperated to eliminate Zhu Fei! Infinite has started off on the wrong foot ah, they’ve already lost a player at the start of the battle.”
“Liu Ruihan has arrived!”
“Ah, Zhou Shu wasn’t able to avoid Liu Ruihan’s attack and has been killed. However Mu Feibai is biting onto him very tightly, can Liu Ruihan escape with his life?”
“Lu Cun has been killed. Du Chen and Lin Jinxi are fighting two against three, their situation is a bit precarious.”
“Wu Song is undoubtedly a soldier with six years of experience, he chose an extremely good time to attack. He’s facing Du Chen… Du Chen has blocked Wu Song’s attack! Backhand slash! He has successfully escaped and entered Wu Song’s blind spot, another slash! Wow, Du Chen is doing well in this bout of hand-to-hand combat, we can see and echo of Mu Feibai in his blocking and attacking movements—Du Chen has voluntarily launched an attack! He’s been pierced in the stomach but he isn’t retreating! Du Chen! Has! Successfully killed Wu Song!”
“Du Chen’s performance shines in this game, he’s performed very well in quite a few group battles.”
“We can see on the other side that Mu Feibai has indeed successfully used this opportunity to kill Liu Ruihan.”
“Lin Jinxi has been killed and Du Chen is being cornered by two of Infinite’s members, danger!”
“Du Chen has been killed, but he has taken Zou Yunran with him! Mu Feibai has returned to the battlefield! A perfect harvest!”
In an astounding twist of fate, Infinite’s all-in attempt to take down the Eagle Riders in one fell swoop somehow turned into an exchange of four for five in favor of the Eagle Riders—total annihilation!
Seeing that they had already dragged the games out for a full 90 minutes, Mu Feibai stood in front of the city gates with a body riddled with wounds and smiled.
The task Qiu Yu entrusted to him has already been completed. After now, every second they held on was a gain, and they could continue to play the game by his methods.
Hence, when Team Infinite had freshly revived from the earlier total annihilation and gathered together in preparation for another group battle, they discovered that… the Mu Feibai who muddled through with pure personal strength was back!
Like this, the Eagle Riders, under Mu Feibai’s leadership, caught Infinite unprepared and managed to win another group battle despite the fact that Infinite had already broken through to their city area—they even destroyed both of Infinite’s tanks.
“This progression was completely incomprehensible. Unpredictable!” Even the commentator had no idea where the game was heading.
“Wu Song was careless. Infinite’s attack was overly rushed and Mu Feibai found a gap in their armour.” The other commentator did their best to string together what was going on, “Mu Feibai is the best at organising group battles, and Du Chen also performed exceptionally this round. And even Lin Jinxi and Lu Cun didn’t make any big mistakes.”
“Total annihilation both times… Infinite will also be facing some danger regarding their energy levels. However, they have already breached the outer walls of the Eagle Rider’s city area so they still have quite the advantage.”
In the infirmary, Qiu Yu huffed in laughter while watching.
Seeing the tides shift like this, he couldn’t help posting a bullet screen comment: [The Eagle Riders have a chance of winning.]
And then he was immediately ridiculed:
[Have a chance to win? They’ve already ended up like this and they still have a chance to win? You’re just saying whatever you want right?]
[Heh, is there no one who knows better than you? They can still win? Like this?]
[Even though I’m god Mu’s fan, I’m still going to say: If the Eagle Riders win this game, I’ll wear women’s clothes to confess to my homeroom teacher!]
Qiu Yu: ……
What’s wrong with Mu Feibai’s fans?
They’re completely different from others, daring to bet something as big as this just for the thrill of saying it.
The players in the competition couldn’t see the barrage anyway, so Qiu Yu didn’t hide anything:
[Lu Cun’s strength is average, but his marksmanship is pretty good. If he and Lin Jinxi were stationed close to the base in defense and Mu Feibai brought Du Chen and Zhou Shu to hunt, they still have a chance.]
His comment was sent and the netizens hadn’t yet organised their language to continue ridiculing him when they saw Mu Feibai actually made the exact same choices—Lu Cun and Lin Jinxi were stationed near the base, Du Chen was sent to the Jungle and he led Zhou Shu to bother Infinite with all kinds of hit-and-run attacks.
Team Infinite was irritated by their inability to end the game and win—they could only watch as the last two defense towers in the city defense area remained there within an inch of their lives, but they had no way to topple it all in one wave.
In the last five minutes, Infinite organised group attacks time and time again until all the defenses in the city area were completely destroyed before they started attacking the base.
However, they didn’t expect that Mu Feibai still hadn’t given up and even dared to lead a mere team of four to initiate a group battle—from which they emerged victorious. The Eagle Riders exchanged two of their teammates for four of the enemy, and forced the final survivor, Zhu Fei, to flee in disgrace!
The game had progressed past forty minutes. Thus, no matter how much energy the base had, it took a very long time for players to revive.
“Get two tanks!” Mu Feibai gripped his hands into fists, his eyes smouldering.
The current energy levels of their base were only sufficient to exchange two tanks—he didn’t even leave enough energy for Zhou Shu and Lin Jinxi to revive. The three drove the tanks into their opponent’s city defense area. Should they fail, there would be no more chances for them to turn the tides.
But Mu Feibai didn’t care at that point. “Gather, advance in the middle lane!”
Tn: Oh geez my blood was boiling the entire chapter… was going to take a break in the middle of translating but IT WAS SO INTENSE I just had to finish… at almost 1am hahahah will get started on the next asap oof my heart cannot waittttt
Awww the little green beans are growing!
Excellent action-filled chapter! Thanks for translating!!
Ooh man imagine being there as it’s happening! I’d be screaming at the top of my lungs!!
Go team Eagle Riders! Thanks for the update 🤣❤️🤣❤️
UWIGH CANT WAIT FOR THE FINSIHERRRRR. Thank u for the translation, absoultely fantastic
Kyaaaaaaaaa that was exciting but the cliffhanger!!! I need the know if Qiu Yu’s prediction was right! Thanks for the chapter!