For Love of the Game

"Hello, audience and friends at the scene and in the live broadcast room, there are still 20 minutes before the official start of the competition. Tonight, the two teams that will compete for life and death at the venue of our "City of Despair" national finals are last year's national finals. The fourth most popular team, Fengyue team! And, the No.6 nationally ranked Supper team last year!"

Both fans cheered enthusiastically.

The venue of the national finals is much larger than that of the group stage. There are three layers of surround-type audience stands and six high-definition LED viewing screens. The cheers of the audience seem to have their own reverberation. Looking down from the commentary stand is like watching the city from an airplane. The night scene is full of stars and lights.

"The online voting window was closed 10 minutes ago. Team Maple Moon's support rate is 0.5 times that of Team Supper. Ouch, this number is not common in the quarterfinals."

Yao Jun said, "That's right, since Cang Yu joined Fengyue, Fengyue's momentum has been overwhelming. Niu Niu and I have followed Fengyue team all the way from the group stage. After joining three new members, the strength of this team is beyond the same day. It can be said that Supper's game is very difficult."

Niu Niu nodded, "What do you think of Sister Orange?"

Orange is wearing a small light gray suit today. She has a tall and straight demeanor and a capable temperament. The home goddess with millions of fans is not in vain.

"I am more optimistic about Fengyue." Her voice is also different from the sweetness and pleasantness during the live broadcast, and her words are full of formality, "Not to mention Cang Yu's personal strength, the remaining veteran players of Fengyue are also They are all outstanding players who have gone through Captain Song’s two major reshuffles. Deputy Team Zhou, Xiao Ming, and Xing Xing all had outstanding performances in last year’s professional competition.”

As soon as Niu Niu guessed, she would mention Zhou Ning. It's no secret that Juzi likes Zhou Ning in the circle, but she is very popular, no one is gossiping, and few of her fans know about it.

"There is another interesting thing about this game. I think everyone knows that Sun Yuan, an active member of the Supper team, was a veteran of the Maple Moon team. During the transfer period last year, Sun Yuan switched to Supper when Maple Moon had already left two regular picks. It also made Captain Song's situation worse. Sun Yuan has been fighting for Maple Moon for five years, and has always been the leader of the legal system in the team, so he must be very familiar with his old club."

Someone on the Internet has already cut the melon. Although Sun Yuan jumped to Supper after his contract with Fengyue expired, in fact he had frequent contact with Manager Wang of the Supper team as early as the national finals.

The manager of the Maple Moon team said in an interview that Sun Yuan pushed back on his request to renew the contract. At that time, he thought that Sun Yuan was not satisfied with the treatment of the new contract, but in fact he was waiting for the contract with Maple Moon to expire.

What made Fengyue's manager even more angry was that Sun Yuan asked for ten days off due to an accident at home a few days before the contract expired. After that, he couldn't get through the phone no matter what. "On Weibo, I found out that Sun Yuan had been signed away.

Although this revelation was strongly denied by the Supper team and Sun Yuan himself, the people who eat melons do not believe it. After all, the leave note and call records are there, and Sun Yuan’s behavior of canceling his old teammates immediately after joining Supper also seems very strange. Petty.

So whether Sun Yuan stepped back on his old club, or Fengyue tore down the traitor, it all depends on the outcome of this match.

Brother Kun attaches great importance to this game, and he gets angry when he thinks about coaxing his ancestors to chase after Sun Yuan's ass to negotiate a contract.At that time, Sun Yuan was putting on airs and finding fault with Song Xueyang every day, but he actually let Song Xueyang bear it. Now that he thinks about it, that grandson was simply making fun of him.

"I won't talk about how important this game is. With our current strength, Supper is no match for us at all. Everyone, don't save your strength and beat that kid Sun Yuan to the ground."

"Understood!" "Don't worry, it will definitely make them doubt their lives!"

Seeing that everyone was fighting high, Brother Kun felt relieved and motioned for Song Xueyang to speak.

Song Xueyang said with a smile, "This match is the first match of our team's quarter-finals. Supper is not a very strong opponent, but there is no need to preserve strength. Playing momentum is the key. We have some grievances with Sun Yuan, but Remember, this is not the reason why we have to win, but if we can't even beat Supper, there is no need to play the next game."

Everyone was very ashamed of what they said, they came here for the championship trophy, how could they only pretend to be Sun Yuan in their eyes?Defeating Supper is only the first step on their way forward, and there are many steps after that, WG, Xiaowolf and even the World Championship.

Song Xueyang saw that the playfulness in everyone's eyes dissipated, and said, "There is no need to be too serious in the first round of the quarterfinals. Let's play a small game, hoping to mobilize everyone's enthusiasm."

"In this match, no matter what the mode is, if you kill Sun Yuan once, five hundred will be deducted, and if you are killed by him, you will be deducted five hundred. The lower limit is zero. After the match, I will give everyone red envelopes."

Everyone: "..."

It is agreed not to be blinded by personal grievances!Didn’t Sun Yuan smash your computer back then?You have already constituted paying for murder!Are they the kind of people who can be bought with money?

"OJ8K!"

Yes they are.

At seven o'clock in the evening, the second round of the "City of Despair" national finals officially began.

全国总决赛的规则模式与世界赛接轨，均采取五局三胜制，6V6和2V2各打两场，1V1一场。

At the beginning of the game, five games will be randomly selected on the big screen, and the 1V1 mode will always appear in the first three games. This is also to ensure that teams that are good at the ring will not be eliminated in the first three games.

今晚的比赛现场抽取顺序是：1V1、6V6、2V2、2V2、6V6。

Zhou Ning got up calmly and rolled up his cuffs. He could not see his emotions with his eyes downcast, but could only see his eyelashes blurred by the light.

Hai Xing snorted, "Brother Ning, aren't you the third match?"

Song Xueyang came over, "Let Zhou Ning take the first round today."

Seeing the order of the games, the audience became excited. Playing 1V1 first means that Cang Yu will be the first to appear. If you don't watch Cang Yu fight in Fengyue's game, it will be nothing.

"It's a bit difficult for Supper and Fengyue to play 1V1, because Supper is a team that focuses on magic damage. Magic damage may be effective against Cang Yu's stealth, but it lacks control itself, and blood defense can't keep up. Eat mana, and it is more disadvantageous to fight with melee physics department professional sparring."

Yao Jun nodded, "However, Cang Yu won't be able to gain any sweetness in the first round. Fan Hao, the captain of the Supper team, is an elementalist. The elementalist profession has many locked skills, and Fan Hao's elementalist is suffocating." Liu, it is very difficult for an assassin to be invisible in front of him."

Juzi hurriedly said, "The entry list for the first round of both sides has been submitted. The first round of the Supper team is indeed Captain Fan's elementalist, the second round is Sun Yuan's ice method, and the guard stage is a swordsman. Fengyue this The first round... is Vice Team Zhou?!"

There was a burst of booing from the audience. Since the start of the group stage, even since the S1 season, Zhou Ning has never played a 1V1 start. Because of his calm personality and stable performance, he is the best candidate for the defending stage.

But this time, Fengyue's 1V1 lineup changed the order completely, Shen Huai played the second round, and Shi Yi defended the round.

No one expected this result, but after Yao Jun's analysis just now, it seemed very reasonable.

Juzi is very satisfied with Song Xueyang's arrangement, "Gouhuo Liu assassins are not easy to fight against upper elementalists, but swordsmen are more restrained from legal professions, especially Zhou's deputy team is an epee swordsman. Defensively, judging from previous battle experience, the results of the matches between Vice Team Zhou and Team Fan are both [-]-[-]."

At this time, both players had already entered the soundproof room. Fan Hao never expected that Song Xueyang would send Zhou Ning to play. He specially changed himself from the defending ring to the first ring to deal with Cang Yu. As a result, Song Xueyang also changed Zhou Ning to the first ring?

To be honest, Fan Hao almost vomited when he beat Zhou Ning.

Both of them are defending players, and the rankings of the two teams are close. They have to play one or two games every year. In the 1V1 stage, he and Zhou Ning will fight. Fighting, even 2V2 Zhou Ning is the one responsible for following him.

In terms of strength, Fan Hao is better than Zhou Ning, but this gap is almost smoothed out by professional disadvantages. It is difficult to distinguish between the two in a fight. Winning or losing depends on luck and state.

Fan Hao could only hope in his heart that Zhou Ning's condition would be worse today.

This is exactly what Fengyue people are most worried about, because Zhou Ning's condition these two days has not looked very good, the smile on his face has disappeared, and he doesn't know what he is thinking, even just before going on stage, he just said lightly "I'm leaving".

Vice-captain Zhou has always been gentle and good-tempered, and I have never seen him so stern.

Fan Jingming asked worriedly, "Is Zhou Ning okay?"

Song Xueyang just smiled, the human brain is a wonderful thing, it often makes decisions that go against one's own heart at a certain moment, and calls it "reality".

It all depends on how firm Zhou Ning's heart is.

Zhou Ning put his hands on the keyboard, and his rolled up sleeves revealed his white and slender arms. He quickly ordered the talent and skill points, but it took until the last minute to take a deep breath and raise his hand to signal.

Seeing this action, Niu Niu said, "This is Vice Team Zhou's first start in the ring. Although Captain Fan is his old opponent, he is obviously still a little nervous."

Juzi's eyes flickered, and he said firmly, "I trust Deputy Team Zhou."

The five-second countdown ended, the golden light that symbolized the safety zone faded, and the two contestants walked out of the birth point respectively.

Zhou Ning jumped onto the ring and walked a few steps forward, the shadow of an elementalist appeared in his vision.

He stopped.

As a long-distance professional, Fan Hao would not take the initiative to approach him. He wondered what Zhou Ning was thinking when he stood there, and he didn't see the referee call a timeout. It was obviously not a device failure. Zhou Ning looked strange when he came in the afternoon. What's the matter? Are you in a bad state?

These thoughts just flashed through his mind, and Fan Hao quickly pressed the skill Water Dragon Chanting, Raging Waves!

Occupations of the same branch show different styles of play because of different emphasis when adding skills.

The same is an elementalist, Shiyi's points are mostly added to the lightning magic skills, relying on the water elemental state to superimpose lightning damage to hit an instant burst, and the elementalist's ultimate move, five thunderbolts, instantly bursts the damage and is only ranked below the sniper.

Fan Hao's elementalist mainly uses water spells to superimpose the suffocation state, which is characterized by slow output and strong stamina. Ten layers of suffocation state can make the enemy lose 5% blood per second, and it ignores defense and damage reduction. Under the ideal state of being suffocated by ten layers of suffocation, the rough and fleshy fighter can't last half a minute.

The dragon king formed by the condensed water flowed straight towards Zhou Ning, and the furious wave of skill range hints had already formed under his feet, but Zhou Ning raised his hand at this moment, interlocking his fingers and breaking his joints vigorously.

Then he put his hands back on the keyboard, his eyes changed slightly, and he swung the mouse to the upper right, and the swordsman on the screen rushed forward like an arrow off the string.

- Yufeng Xing!

Fan Hao immediately used Arcane Blink to dodge, but Zhou Ning's epee came one after another, Drunken Song Sword, Bright Moon Slash, and Epee Slash!

Zhou Ning's special skill is to go A, the skill gap connects with the basic attack and cancels the back shake, and he takes the basic operation of the gunman to the swordsman, using the four combos of the general attack and the drunk song sword to keep silent one after another. People are helpless tricks.

Seeing that the situation was not right, Fan Hao hastily used Lei Ling Body Protector on himself.

His thunder spirit body protection level is not as high as that of time, and the damage reduction effect is not obvious, but the immunity for 1 second after the body protection state ends is the same.

He took advantage of a second to press Arcane Blink to return to the original position. Zhou Ning turned around and made a move to chop the mountain. Fan Hao was sent flying before his feet landed on the ground.

In addition to instantly knocking the mountain into the air, Zhou Ning quickly cut in front of him in the gap, and double-bounced - the sword dances across the universe and kills all directions!

The epee swordsman's wide-edged sword was surrounded by sword energy, and wherever the sword light went, a whirlwind rolled up, and the dense sword intent formed a light blue light array, like the light of the polar region in the ice and snow.

The dazzling sword energy directly suppressed Fan Hao's blood volume to 50%, and all this happened in just a few seconds!

The people watching the match were stunned, not to mention the audience, even the three commentators were silent for a while.

Zhou Ning is a slow-heating player, and his condition is getting better and better as the time on the field increases. Because of his excellent psychological quality, he is also very good at exhausting hard battles.

However, it has never happened before that he used up two big moves without hesitation in the first ten seconds, and the two sets of combo moves pressed the opponent to half health!

Juzi was stunned for a moment, then smiled, "You played beautifully! Vice team Zhou entered the best form at the beginning of the game today. He predicted the enemy's position and used the mountain slash to control it, and instantly replaced 50% of Team Fan's vitality!"

The fans stood up and shouted after knowing it, waving the support cards in their hands until there was only a blur of light, and the screams from all directions echoed in the venue for a long time.

In the soundproof room, Sun Yuan frowned and pulled the manager into the corner, "Did you take care of it?"

Manager Wang was so angry that the arteries in his neck were throbbing, "Damn it, don't fucking ask me!"

Zhou Ning's eyes are sharp, and his fingers are flying quickly on the keyboard, as if this is the only way to dispel the anger in his heart——

"Don't worry, as long as you are a human being, there will be times when you don't perform well. It's just a game, and you can play again in August next year. You usually do your best for the team and no one will blame you. But if something happens at this juncture, you life would be a mess.”

He looked at the check on the table and asked for a long time, "Why me?"

Manager Wang was slightly taken aback, "What?"

Zhou Ning sneered, and the smile in his eyes was completely replaced by a cold light. He raised his head slightly, looking condescending and arrogant.

"I ask why you chose me? Why not Shen Huai, Hai Xing, Shi Yi, Fan Jingming and others?"

Without waiting for Manager Wang to answer, he said coldly, "Let me tell you, because Hai Xing and Shi Yi only see winning, and you can't buy it with any amount of money. Shen Huai and Fan Jingming are stars and the other is a model. You can’t afford it. So it’s just me, the hopeful three-match me, who is desperate for money and desperate for money.”

His voice was obviously not loud, but Manager Wang was so shocked that he couldn't utter a word. The sense of oppression that that soft and neutral face gave him at this moment was no less than that of any man.

"You want to win, I don't care, but you come to me, heh..."

The hands under the table were tightly clenched into fists, as if there was only one string left before the explosion, his eyes were fixed on Manager Wang like icicles, and the words from his thin lips were even colder. chills.

"The most unbearable thing in my life is being looked down upon by others. I came from a poor family and was born in a county town. I never went to college. At the age of 18, I came out alone to support my father who was seriously ill. I paid for the living expenses of the whole family, but I never owed anyone a penny. money, and I have never made any unclean money!"

"It is the greatest insult to me that you came to me."

Manager Wang learned about Zhou Ning's affairs from Sun Yuanna, investigated the situation in many ways, and chose a point of entry that he thought was the best.

But he missed one thing - Zhou Ning's self-esteem.

When Zhou Jing became a regular player, Zhou Ning wanted to give gifts to Song Xueyang and Shen Huai, but in the end Song Xueyang confiscated it, and Shen Huai finally gave it as a birthday gift. At that time, he was not rich at all. Gritting his teeth to do the same is completely out of wanting to owe favors.

A person who even wants to repay the money owed to Guan He at double the bank's loan interest rate for the same period, no amount of money can buy him to bow his head.

Manager Wang got a bad nose and didn't even look at Zhou Ning when he went out.

Zhou Ning was trembling with anger, as long as he thought that he would become the target of the match-fixing match, the anger in his heart would rise.

For two days in a row, he didn't even want to say a word. He just sat in front of the computer and wished he could kill all the members of the Supper team along the network cable. Let Manager Wang see what a stupid decision it was to find him.

On the field, Fan Hao lost at the start. He had long been used to Zhou Ning's slow style of play, but now he played so fiercely when he suddenly entered the field, his state couldn't keep up, and the gap in blood volume was instantly opened.

Zhou Ning's face was tense, and his slender fingers tapped on the keyboard, making a pleasant sound.

Fan Hao retreated and fought, Yushuijue, wind and rain, raging waves, and water spells hit Zhou Ning one by one. Although the speed was slow, it finally superimposed ten layers of suffocation, and lost 3% of blood per second.

He seized the right moment and suddenly opened up—five thunders struck the top!

Five green thunders fell from the sky, and the damage increased by the water state was even more explosive.

Zhou Ning's hand hung over the shortcut key of "Sword Qi Bodyguard" early on, waiting for Fan Hao to zoom in. The damage reduction state of Sword Qi Bodyguard is useless against the suffocation effect, but it is still no problem to resist a big move.

One second before the first blue lightning struck the top of his head, a white light surrounded by sword energy enveloped him. This damage reduction state was activated in time, directly reducing the damage by 50%!

Yao Jun called out beautifully, "The timing of the release of this Sword Qi Bodyguard is too accurate! Not only is Zhou Ning in good condition, but his operation is also better than in the group stage, and he has definitely reached the level of a quasi-first-line player!" It seems that this year's swordsman professional rankings will be reshuffled again, and now he is not at all inferior to the three swordsmen of Xiaolang!"

Fan Hao gritted his teeth, and the keyboard was crackling by him. Seeing Zhou Ning cut over, he quickly pressed Arcane Blink.

However, it was 0.1 seconds too late, the swordsman's Drunken Song Sword hit him first to trigger the silence state, and Fan Hao didn't use the arcane flicker move in a daze.

Bright Moon Slash, Epee Slash, Sword Pointing to the End of the World!

In order to deal with the nimble elementalist, Zhou Ning devoted half of the attribute points that were originally added to attack and blood to agility. While moving faster, the attack speed also accelerated a lot, and the three sword moves were smooth. Connected to the ground, directly took away Fan Hao who had only a trace of blood left.

There was a burst of excited cheers on the field, and Niu Niu clapped his hands three times.

"Ningshen's shot was quick and sharp. The fast attack style is a new attempt for him personally, but obviously his old opponent failed to keep up with the rhythm. The Fan team was a little confused in this round, and the blood volume was too low at the beginning. Great, although the suffocation state was superimposed in the later stage, the difference in blood volume still cannot be recovered, Ning Shen caught Team Fan by surprise this time!"

Juzi smiled and spoke proudly, "That's right, Vice Team Zhou usually gave everyone the impression of a steady player, even a weaker player in the early stage, but this time he proved to us with his strength that he has overcome his own weakness Shortcomings, a big step forward.”

At the end of the auditorium, Guan He stood in the corner, with a hint of a smile on his frosty face.

He knew that Zhou Ning would not let him down, and it was the appearance of being too proud to bow his head no matter what he went through that deeply attracted him.

As for the photos that Manager Wang hired to take, let Song Xueyang handle them later.After all, Zhou Ning is his team member. I believe that Manager Wang will definitely suffer a lot with Song Fox's character of protecting his weaknesses.

Everyone in Fengyue showed joy, Hai Xing and Brother Kun stood in front of the viewing screen and clapped their hands excitedly.

Brother Kun felt as if he had just come out of the steam room, and he felt comfortable all over, "Exhaust! Zhou Ning is really fighting for brother!"

Hai Xing jumped up, "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

Song Xueyang and Shen Huai looked at each other with a sense of relief.

Song Xueyang smiled slightly. Since he received the photo last night, he had a vague premonition that Zhou Ning did not agree to this matter.

Otherwise, why would that person send him a photo to shake the morale of the army?

Of course, more is his understanding of his old teammate.

Zhou Ning is a person with a stubborn soul wrapped in a gentle appearance. When he first joined the team, he couldn't even understand how to play a computer. He hasn't complained to anyone in the team for so many years.

Zhou Ning was the first person to let Song Xueyang understand how far a person's self-esteem can support him.

Shen Huai didn't know that much about Zhou Ning, and Song Xueyang had never told him about Zhou Ning's story.

But he only has two words for this vice-captain who treats others gently and takes care of him everywhere - trust.

Amidst the cheers, Supper's second contestant, Sun Yuan, went up to the ring and faced Zhou Ning. The ice technique was actually more restrained, but fortunately, Zhou Ning's blood volume was not much.

"Team Fan's suffocation state has already suppressed Zhou Ning's blood volume to 10%. In this state, he can't get any benefit from facing Sun Yuan. We can only use up as much as possible, but it doesn't matter if we can't. After all, our next challenger is Feather God."

When Shen Huai was mentioned, the whole venue burst into thunderous cheers.

The two stood at opposite corners of the ring, and Sun Yuan was waiting for Zhou Ning to attack. He was not in a hurry, this amount of blood was not an advantage at all, and...

He also looked down on Zhou Ning.

A person with a poor family and a hard life, who should be so poor that he can't hold his head up, has a smile on his face all day long, pretending to be an elegant and noble son, his hypocrisy is disgusting.

Thinking of this, he let out a snort from his nostrils.

Zhou Ning stared at Bingfa on the opposite side. He knew that Sun Yuan must have told his story. Otherwise, he had kept it so well that even the reporters didn't find out. How could Manager Wang suddenly follow him?

Oh, those who look down on him...

He can't look down on it either!

Zhou Ning raised his sword directly - Heaven and Earth live together!

Guan He's eyes narrowed, his back stiffened, and he said that looking at Zhou Ning's skill damage, he always felt that one skill point was missing, and it turned out to be here.

There was a burst of exclamation in the audience.

Heaven and Earth Same Life, a skill that is almost never pointed out, Zhou Ning reserved a skill point for it.

The swordsman sacrifices his own life to cause the same amount of damage to the enemies within the range, because it can only be used when his own blood is lower than 20%, so he can only knock out 20% of the enemy's blood at most, but he himself It is 100% mortal.

Because it is very tasteless, no one has ever used it, and I have seen it when some entertainment anchors are spoofing.

But now, Zhou Ning not only used this skill in the professional arena, but more importantly, Sun Yuan was not within his spellcasting range at all, that is to say, this trick of Tiandi Tongshou was equivalent to suicide, and Sun Yuan did not suffer any damage at all!

Sun Yuan opened his mouth, looking at the screen for a long time but couldn't recover.

Zhou Ning is like the patron saint of a pure land, treating his people with tenderness and love, but not allowing the enemy to touch him.