Chapter 558: Attention and Disdain

“Shui shui shui shui shui shui…”

Huang Shaotian was wandering in the corridor in a daze. Today was the opening match, so he played with some passion. He played with his hands and mouth in sync throughout the whole game, and even argued with a group of reporters at the press conference. As a result, he was thirsty until midnight, so Huang Shaotian had to get up to find water.

Unfortunately, the vending machine closest to the dormitory area was out of water. The nearest one could only be found in the vending machine outside the training room.

But… the lights in the training room were still on.

“Why is the light still on? Let me see which hardworking little cutie is still practicing. I must praise him tomorrow… Um, captain, you haven’t slept yet?” Huang Shaotian scratched his head. Only Yu Wenzhou was sitting in the training room.

Hearing the voice, Yu Wenzhou paused the screen on the computer and turned his head to look: "Shaotian?"

"Captain, please wait a moment!" Huang Shaotian retracted his head, ran to the vending machine to buy two bottles of drinks, and then walked back into the training room: "Captain Nuo!"

"Thanks... Um, actually I don't plan to stay up late, I'm going to sleep soon." Yu Wenzhou looked at the coffee beside him and smiled bitterly.

"Don't worry too much, are you...watching other teams' games?" Huang Shaotian was stunned for a moment, and now the screen showed a sniper named [Qiumu Su] sniping Mu Yu Cheng Feng: "Is this...a match between Yu Jin and Xing Xin? Who is this Qiu Mu Su?"

"This season, Xiao Wen's new sharpshooter account should be a very old ID, which can be found in Soxar's friend list." Yu Wenzhou smiled: "I can't sleep well, so I want to study this season's opponents."

The distribution of the first opening game is very even, without the situation of strong teams meeting strong teams. The Blue Rain team played against the He Wu team in this game, and easily won a score of 9 to 1. And according to the schedule, the Blue Rain schedule in the next few weeks is also relatively easy, so Yu Wenzhou can take time to study the opponent in advance.

"The Happy Team is indeed a potential competitor. Ye Xiu's individual...even so far I haven't thought of a good way to deal with it." Huang Shaotian scratched his head.

"But in this round of the competition, Team Li defeated Jun Moxiao with Qiu Musu." Yu Wenzhou said seriously.

Huang Shaotian subconsciously wanted to say that this was impossible, but Yu Wenzhou had already rewound the screen to the last round of the competition. Huang Shaotian simply shut up and focused on the changes in the situation on the field.

However, the more he watched, the more solemn his expression became. After watching, he directly signaled his captain to continue playing the subsequent team competition video.

To be honest, even if the Ember Team won the league championship last season, the major teams did not regard them as the main competitors this season.

There is no other reason. The average age of the Ember Team members is definitely a flaw. The remaining professional career may have to be calculated in days. In their eyes, the Ember Team can be regarded as a strong team, but if it is said to be a wealthy team, most people would not agree.

Whose wealthy team has more than half of its professional players retiring soon?

However, the video of the opening match completely dispelled Huang Shaotian's idea: "Zhang Jiale's condition is still improving. Now he doesn't have the slight hesitation caused by the previous game before he makes a move. Even if he can't return to the level of the seventh season, he can definitely return to the top players.

Sun Zheping's playing style is still so tough. Like Lao Han, there is no sign of the influence of age on them.

Lao Lin's condition has declined a lot, but Fang Rui's transfer has given him more options.

And Team Fang... his overall view has been restored. His judgment, coordination ability, and support prediction have gradually recovered to their previous levels.

And Li Wen... his sharpshooter level, the more I watch it, the more I feel that Zhou Zekai is playing on it?"

"Well... I'm afraid that the response strategy of the Ember Team needs to be slightly changed." Yu Wenzhou nodded and pushed his glasses.

Huang Shaotian hesitated for a moment: "But... this is just the opening game, they can't wait to show everything, isn't it a bit... intentional suspicion?"

"I may have thought about this before, but... it should be impossible." Yu Wenzhou shook his head.

Huang Shaotian looked at the captain with some doubts: "Why?"

"Because... they really don't have much time..." Yu Wenzhou said in a daze.

He remembered the words that Fang Shijing posted on Weibo before the Embers team was about to be publicly established.

[Don't go gentle into that good night,

Old age should burn and roar at dusk;

Rage, rage against the disappearance of light. ]

And now, darkness is coming, they must muster all their strength and rage against the disappearance of light.

They want to tell everyone that this is their last madness.

This is a... declaration of war!

Yu Wenzhou took a deep breath, and felt his blood boiling for the first time in a long time. He opened the coffee bought by Huang Shaotian and drank about half of it in one breath: "Tomorrow is a rest day... Shaotian, if you are not sleepy now, why don't you stay and analyze it together? You also know that with my operating level, there are many things that I can't fully understand."

"Okay." The sleepiness disappeared completely, and the originally silent training room now had the sound of two people discussing.

The undisguised provocation and declaration of war by the Embers team basically spread throughout the entire professional player circle on the second day. Some people teased the members of the Embers team in the group, some people were dismissive of it, and some people took the Embers team's declaration of war very seriously.

Of course, there are teams that have all of these states, and they are even the opponents that the Embers team will face in the next game.

[Howling Team]!

Since Fang Rui left, the Howling Team urgently dug a thief from the Blue Rain team as the operator of the Ghostly Suspicion, Lin Feng.

Although he is a thief, Lin Feng's playing style is like that of a swordsman, and he is good at frontal charging. This is naturally highly valued by Tang Hao, and he quickly established his position in the team after the first opening game.

It's just a pity that he didn't get the position of deputy captain of the Howling Team. This position was taken by Liu Hao, who has rich experience as a deputy captain.

"So, we can despise our opponents strategically, but we must never underestimate them tactically." Liu Hao said seriously: "Team Ember can't be easily defeated by us like the Magic Team we played in the first game."

"Deputy Captain Liu, you are boosting others' morale and destroying our own prestige." Zhao Yuzhe said sarcastically, emphasizing the word "deputy captain".

In his opinion, the position of deputy captain should be his. Liu Hao is a traitor. Why can he be the deputy captain? Just because he is old and experienced?

Team Tang's "the underdog wins the upper hand" should be the team motto of the Howling Team!

Zhao Yuzhe has always wanted to find an opportunity to challenge Liu Hao to prove that he is more suitable for the position of deputy captain of Howling than him, but Liu Hao has always ignored him.

Liu Hao has finally understood that if the world they live in is a novel, Zhao Yuzhe is definitely the kind of supporting role who is given a halo of reduced intelligence, looking down on this and that all day long, dragging down the protagonist, and then being killed by the protagonist.

Liu Hao had heard about Zhao Yuzhe's deeds, which further confirmed his thoughts. He had always treated this child with the mentality of caring for mentally retarded children. He would try to ignore him as much as possible and go along with him.

But... even so, Zhao Yuzhe would try his best to contradict him on some things.

Liu Hao understood Ye Xiu's feelings at the time, which made him feel more guilty.

Liu Hao took a deep breath: "This is not a question of boosting others' morale, but a reality that lies before us.

Everyone thinks that the Ember Team has no ability to compete this season, but what is the reality? Team Li single-handedly defeated Jun Moxiao, who almost no one could solve. After Fang Rui joined the team competition, their lineup structure became more stable. Can't you see all this?"

"Hehe, I think you are completely scared by Ye Xiu's reputation." Zhao Yuzhe sneered, his words full of disdain: "You all say that Jun Moxiao is strong, but I really don't see where he is strong. I have also encountered Jun Moxiao in online games. As far as I am concerned... I feel that he is just like that, right? To deal with me, I have to rely on human wave tactics to defeat him. How powerful do you think he can be? Moreover, do you really think that only the Exorcist's Forbidden Talisman is the nemesis of Jun Moxiao? Jun Moxiao is best at close combat. As long as he approaches me, I will directly release Absolute Zero. How can he stop it? Senior Liu, are you old?"

Killing someone will cost you your life. Hold on, hold on! This is the retribution for what I did in the past! Hold on!

Liu Hao clenched his fists tightly. Guo Yang, who was following him, looked at Zhao Yuzhe with a bit of hostility. He and Liu Hao had a good relationship: "Boy, you..."

"Enough, this is a pre-war meeting, not a place for you to quarrel. If you want to quarrel, get out!" Tang Hao frowned and said sternly: "Liu Hao, you don't need to be overly pessimistic. We still have an advantage over Xingxin. At least we know Lin Jingyan and Fang Rui better than them. As long as we grasp this advantage, everything is possible. Let's stop here today. Everyone calm down. See you in the training room in an hour. Start analyzing the tactics of using Fang Rui and Lin Jingyan as a breakthrough point."

After speaking, Tang Hao left the meeting room directly.

Lin Feng looked left and right, nodded awkwardly at everyone, and followed Tang Hao out.

Zhao Yuzhe looked at Liu Hao with disdain and complacency, turned around and left the meeting room, while the others looked at each other, said hello to Liu Hao and left here.

Only Liu Hao and Guo Yang were left in the meeting room. Guo Yang said with an indignant look: "Captain Liu, they..."

"Forget it, Lao Guo." Liu Hao smiled bitterly and shook his head: "You can never wake up someone who pretends to be asleep, at least, you can never do it when facing the mainstay who once roared."

"Then let's go..." Guo Yang asked worriedly.

"Let's take it one step at a time... I hope they can be more normal after the next game." Liu Hao rubbed his face to make himself more energetic: "Next, let's go and see the tactical thinking of the Ember Team after Fang Rui joined. The game still needs to be played..."

Guo Yang nodded and asked hesitantly: "Captain Liu, do you regret it..."

"That's for sure." Liu Hao smiled bitterly: "I didn't expect that Howling would have such a trick, but now there is no better way to regret it, so I can only bite the bullet and fight on."

"Well..."

"Let's go."

Liu Hao and Guo Yang also walked out of the door of the conference room, and then took it with them, and the two walked towards the training room.

K City, Embers Club.

Fang Rui was training with a full ship of stars.

The soft armor Fang Rui used today was also made by Su Muqiu. The current software uses the skills of a qigong master to smash some target targets within a specified time.

Of course, this is not just a fixed target. There are also many moving targets, as well as different red enemy targets and blue friendly targets.

Another software that Fang Rui often uses is the stray bullet launcher software. There are several moving red points attacking the blue dummy, and Fang Rui uses all means to prevent the friendly doll from being harmed within the specified time.

"Xiao Fang feels very hardworking today!" Fang Shijing couldn't help but sigh.

"It should be for the next game, right?" Zhang Jiale shrugged: "This matter has almost become a headache for Lao Lin and Xiao Fang."

"Then do we still need to arrange Lao Lin and Xiao Fang to play in the team competition in the next game?" Lu Liang asked.

"It depends on Xiao Wen's arrangement..."

Li Wen, who was watching the game with headphones, was not affected by the words of his predecessors. He was concentrating on the game in front of him and observing all the professional players who had won in the individual competition.

He accepted the challenge proposed by Ye Xiu. After Su Muqiu personally sent Mu Yuchengfeng away yesterday, while waiting for the press conference, Li Wen expressed his choice of the result to Ye Xiu.

This means that from the next game, Li Wen and Ye Xiu will appear in the first place in the individual competition, which will become an extremely obvious weakness.

So since returning to the club yesterday, Li Wen has begun to observe the individual competition contestants with a very high appearance rate.

It's just a pity... The workload is a bit heavy.

Li Wen took off his headphones and just when he wanted to drink a sip of water, the eyes of others were staring at him.

After many rounds of shirking responsibility, Lin Jingyan finally asked, "Captain, how should we play the next game?"