Chapter 17: Brutal knockout match
Xiaochao was practicing alone and felt very bored, so he ran into the life and death battle for matching. After several battles, Xiaochao improved his ranking to within 100.
These few battles have verified the effect of the special training. Xiaochao feels that his combat effectiveness has improved a lot. It is said that when you have capital, you will go crazy. Xiaochao is full of confidence in entering the top 32 of the competition.
"Brother Feng, how was the fight? How is cousin Zhenzhen's fighting ability?" After he came back, Xiao Chao was full of curiosity about the game between him and Westbrook.
"You know Zhenzhen's cousin." He actually wanted to ask, since you know Xiao Chao, why didn't you tell me.
"It doesn't count as acquaintance. I just heard Zhenzhen mention it a few times, but I haven't actually met him in person. But from Zhenzhen's description, I feel that her cousin must be very arrogant." After Xiaochao answered, he curiously asked again: "What happened? Did you suppress his arrogance?"
"His fighting ability is really good, I just narrowly defeated him." Feng
"You only narrowly defeated him? Is he that strong?" In Xiao Chao's heart, Feng's combat power has reached its peak. This Westbrook only narrowly defeated, and he was very surprised.
"By the way, how's your practice going?" Feng was still concerned about Xiao Chao's combat effectiveness.
"Brother Feng, what you taught me is really practical. I went to fight a few times, and I was able to win consecutively, and my ranking improved by dozens of places." Xiaochao described the previous battles in a very exciting way. .
Feng: "Okay, let's continue training."
Xiaochao "....."
At 8 o'clock in the evening, the competition auditions officially ended, and all the top 1,024 contestants have been determined. Three days later, it will officially enter the second stage of the competition, the knockout round.
The knockout rounds are divided into two time periods, namely 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. Within each time period, all games start at the same time.
Today is the first day of the knockout round, that is, 1024 advance to 512. There are 256 groups of games at 10 a.m. and 256 groups of games at 3 p.m.
The knockout rounds are held every other day. You play today, have a rest tomorrow, and continue playing the day after tomorrow.
The game system will complete random matching of players half an hour before the game, and then give players half an hour to prepare for the battle.
At nine-thirty in the morning, Xiaochao received a message from the game: Dear player, your opponent is the "East Gate Snow Sweeping" competition that will be held at ten o'clock sharp. Please prepare in advance in the battle waiting area.
Xiao Chao: "Have you received the battle information?"
Feng replied: "No, have you received the message?"
Xiaochao: "I received it. The game starts at ten o'clock. If you didn't receive it, then you should play in the afternoon."
Some people are happy and some are sad. How many people win the game, how many people will lose the game. Some teams were so disparate in strength that the match ended in just a few minutes; some teams were equally powerful and could fight for more than ten or twenty minutes.
Xiaochao's opponent was very weak compared to Xiaochao, so he won quickly. When he exited the room for the Xiaochao game, there were still more than a hundred games still going on.
But in these one hundred games, he couldn't find a single friend he knew. At this moment, he suddenly discovered that he had very few friends, both in real life and in the game world.
So he sent a message to Xiaochao: Xiaochao, after I finish playing the game in the afternoon, I will invite some friends to play basketball to celebrate.
Xiaochao: "That's a good idea. Let's meet at the same place in the afternoon and call you."
There was no suspense in the afternoon game, and he won the game easily. Then put on your handsome sportswear and come to the old place: the basketball court.
Xiaochao made an appointment with two friends who were about the same age as everyone else and prepared for a 2V2 friendly basketball game. He also knew these two people and had played basketball together several times before.
Since it is 2V2, of course Feng and Xiaochao are on one team, and the other two are on the same team.
One of them is called Nan and the other is Dongdong.
As a young person, simple competitions cannot arouse interest, so Anan proposed that the competitions should have a bonus. Gambling is not recommended and can hurt feelings, so in the end everyone decided to buy snacks and drinks for the loser.
The rules of the game are as follows: a game of seven games, best of seven games
The first prize: red can energy drink
The opponent attacks first, and Feng and Xiaochao defend first. At first, he and Xiaochao didn't take the basketball game seriously and just had fun as usual. But the opponent was very serious, especially Ah Nan, who played very hard. So the score soon became three to one, reaching the match point of the first game.
In the fifth game, Anan took the offensive ball and said to his teammate Dongdong: "Oh, I suddenly feel so dry."
Dongdong immediately understood what Ah Nan meant, and said with a smile: "Yes, my mouth is so dry. Fortunately, there will be drinks soon."
Feng and Xiaochao looked at each other and smiled, quickly defended, successfully stole the ball, and then launched a counterattack, turning the score into three to two.
However, in the end, they lost the first game 4-2.
Willing to admit defeat, he and Xiao Chao immediately went to the nearby canteen to buy drinks. On the way there, they heard Anan's voice behind them: "Buy more, each of us will drink three or four."
Later, Feng and Xiaochao bought a dozen in one go.
Anan drank the drink and said angrily: "Why does this drink feel so sweet today?"
.........
The second jackpot: pistachios
With the experience of the first game, both Feng and Xiaochao became serious. In the end, they fought back against each other and won the second game with a score of 4 to 2.
However, Anan planned to buy it immediately and found a reason:
It is inconvenient to eat while playing ball;
There were no pistachios at the nearby concession stand either;
After the next game, we'll go shopping, etc.
Feng and Xiaochao are not petty people, so they have no objection to this.
Xiao Chao said: "It's okay. If we lose in the next game, we'll just cancel each other out."
Anan: "Yes, I think so too. Come on, let's continue."
The third prize: beef jerky
At this time, the smell of gunpowder on the field was already very strong, and it was about to explode at the first touch.
The score went from one to one, to two to two, and finally three to three. Both sides reached match point. At this time, there was no lively conversation on the field anymore. Everyone was in perfect agreement and seemed to have turned on the mute mode.
In the end, Feng and Xiaochao, with their tacit cooperation, won four to three.
At this time, Anan pointed at Feng and said loudly: "Come on, let's regroup, Xiaochao and me, you and Dongdong"
Both Feng and Xiaochao refused to regroup because there was an agreement between him and Xiaochao: when there is only 1V1, the two sides can be opponents. In any other team competition, they must be comrades-in-arms.
After hearing this explanation, Anan felt very angry: "What kind of ball are you playing? If you don't play, there will be no games to play."
Then putting the lottery aside, Ah Nan and Dongdong stood under the blue frame and talked about today's game together.
Ah Nan said how powerful he was, and he killed the opponent in a few seconds.
After hearing this, Xiaochao also joined the chat: "Is it the game "Eighteen Martial Arts"?"
Anan asked Xiaochao: "Yes, are you playing too? Are you participating in today's game?"
Xiaochao replied proudly: "Of course they all participated, Brother Feng and I both won."
Everyone, you and I talked about this game and put the basketball game aside.
Anan talked about this game with a sense of superiority, saying that he was ranked in the top 200. Not only that, he also made friends with the top ten players in the game as big brothers.
Then asked Xiaochao what his ranking was,
Xiaochao replied: "It's about the same as you, about one or two hundred."
Anan said, you are also good at fighting. Are you interested in joining our team?
Xiaochao: "We already have a team."
Anan: "It doesn't matter. The team system hasn't come out yet. Once it's officially out, it won't be too late to make a decision."
Then, Ah Nan continued to brag. When talking about his boss, there was no need to exaggerate:
"Professional player, ranked eighth in the entire server."
"I have my own game studio with hundreds of people under my command."
"What games have you played before and what achievements have you made?"
.......
In the end, Anandi didn’t even mention the pistachios and beef jerky, and just said to everyone: Goodbye.
But Dongdong’s tutor did not allow him to do this. After Ah Nan left, when Feng, Xiaochao and Dongdong were on their way home together, Dongdong bought pistachios and beef at a large supermarket on the side of the road. Dry.
Originally Feng and Xiaochao refused, but Dongdong said: "People have no faith and are not established. If you refuse, you don't treat me as a friend."
After Dongdong left, he and Xiaochao discussed the word "friends": How many friends should a person make in a lifetime? What kind of people are worth making friends with?
But both of them are still young and have little experience, so they can only get a taste of it.
The knockout round is still going on brutally, and tomorrow is the last day of the knockout round, with 64 going into 32.
In the afternoon, he and Xiaochao trained together as usual. Suddenly he received a message from Westbrook, hoping to compete with him again.
Of course he would not refuse, so he invited Westbrook into his training room. Although Xiao Chao had heard Zhenzhen talk about Westbrook before, this was the first time they met in a game today.
"You are Xiao Chao. I heard Zhenzhen mention you often. I have watched your live broadcast. It is very good and has a bright future." Westbrook had a good impression of Xiao Chao and praised Xiao Chao when we met.
"You are Westbrook. I heard Zhenzhen mention you often. Your fighting ability is good. You are in the top 32. I am very optimistic about you." Xiaochao imitated Westbrook's tone and praised Westbrook.
Feng: "Stop praising each other, let's start discussing."
