"Uh..." Liu Yichen complained speechlessly, "You two have something special. You can encounter such a small probability event, so you can be regarded as brothers in distress."
"Brother." Ma Baoguo's expression improved a little. He patted Lu Li on the shoulder and said, "I don't seem to be feeling so uncomfortable anymore. Why don't you just quit the game? You can help me get to the bottom of the rankings."
Land from:"......"
The drawing session was not over yet, and the numbers on the electronic screen began to scroll again.
Lu Li and Ma Baoguo were naturally a little uncomfortable being assigned to the same group as the seeded players, but for other students who had not yet been drawn, this was undoubtedly very good news.
Every time a seeded player is grouped with others, the probability of qualifying will be greater.
You know, for every selection competition held by Xinghai Academy, scouts from countless organizations will come to watch the competition. If you can stand on a higher level of the knockout stage, it will undoubtedly attract the attention of these talent scouts.
In the second half of the lottery, Xia Youran obviously accelerated the progress. A total of 48 third-level players were filled into the carrot pit of 12 groups.
"Those in the first group and those in the second group, hurry up and warm up, and the two groups will play together."
Xia Youran's relaxed voice came from the radio.
In the lounge, several students immediately started packing their card packages.
"I'm going to the venue first, you two need to cheer up too."
In the three-person small group, Liu Yichen is full of fighting spirit. Today's signing gave him the confidence to break out of the group stage.
"Come on," Lu Li encouraged.
"I'm so jealous... Come on, Old Liu, if you can't qualify, I will laugh at you forever." Ma Baoguo was unwilling to give up, but he also gave encouragement to his friend.
"Let's go. If you can qualify, it will be considered a success." Liu Yichen looked relaxed, picked up the card package and walked out.
...
Inside the playing field.
In the huge open-air training ground, the auditorium was filled with people.
Various audiences sit here with different purposes. Among them, there are talent scouts who come to discover the members of the organization, and there are also onlookers who simply come to watch the fun.
Among the crowd, four figures appeared in the last row of the auditorium. Two were tall and two were slender. They were Lu Li's four teammates in the Source of Light.
The number of people in the fourth level was small, the race was short, and there was still a long time before the race started. I was bored, so Lin Miaohan, Qiu Mingxue and the Xiong brothers came to watch Lu Li's race.
"What's going on now? Has the game started?" Qiu Mingxue raised his eyes and looked down.
The wide field is divided into two, with standard competition fields on the left and right, and an invisible energy wall in the middle.
"It seems that the lottery has just been drawn." Lin Miaohan pointed to the electronic screen in front of the auditorium, "Let's take a look and see which group Lu Li was drawn into?"
There were only 48 names in total on the screen. Xiong Er quickly discovered Lu Li: "In the eighth group, Chen Juntao, Hu Yueya and Ma Baoguo are also in the same group as him."
"Chen Juntao?" Xiong Da and Qiu Mingxue said in unison.
Their results quickly scanned the screen, and Lu Li's grouping was quickly confirmed.
Captain Xiong shook his head and sighed: "Lu Li's luck is really... a bit bad. He probably won't be able to make it out of the line."
"He is worthy of being on the Nordic assassination list. His luck is well-deserved." Qiu Mingxue led the three of them and casually found a seat to sit down, waiting for the game to start.
Games in both venues start at the same time.
Soon, the strength gap between the players in the second group was large, and the winner was decided first.
Liu Yichen then succeeded in standing out from the first group by relying on a slight advantage and advanced to the knockout rounds.
The four of them chatted and ate while watching the game. They even talked about two of the four contestants in the third group who had just successfully held hands.
It's a pity that neither of them qualified.
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So, just when Qiu Mingxue was about to start playing Pokémon, the games of the fifth and sixth groups finally ended.
In other words, the seventh group and the eighth group with Lu Li are about to appear.
"Finally, we've waited." Qiu Mingxue stretched, looked at the schedule hanging on the big screen, and said, "The first game of the eighth group is Lu Li."
"It's a pony, as long as you play steadily, there shouldn't be any big problem." Xiong Xiong said.
Having been the leader of the sparring group for one semester and tutoring Lu Li for an entire winter vacation, Xiong Da knew the two's skills well.
Lu Li's progress was really great. Unless Ma Baoguo made a big breakthrough during the winter vacation, he would probably lose.
"Group 7, Group 8, Game 1, please prepare star cards for both sides."
The mechanical voice broadcast the report word for word.
The text on the electronic screen was dismantled and reorganized, turning into an open deck for the four players who were about to play.
——Lu Li, [Light Gun Blade] [Light Explosion Sword] [Ice Mirror].
——Ma Baoguo, [Lightning Whip] [Thunder Wrapped Body] [Star Blade Tempered].
Lin Miaohan and others were not surprised to see such a conventional star card combination.
"I guess the second-level countermeasure card is [Vibration Blade], but what are the effects of Lu Li's two original cards?" Qiu Mingxue held her cheeks in her hands and looked at the two people in the center of the field with doubt.
...
Within the competition venue.
Ma Baoguo had roughly the same idea as Qiu Mingxue, thinking that the second-level star card that Lu Li had concealed information from should be [Vibrating Sword].
However, this card can only play its greatest role when it is unexpected, and in today's "open card" situation, [Vibrating Sword] is not scary at all.
Moreover, I also practiced free fighting during the winter vacation. What would happen even if Lu Li used the vibration knife?
Thinking of this, Xiao Ma raised his head unconsciously and stepped into the circle in the center of the field.
"Both players, the competition is about to begin."
The mechanical sound starts counting down.
"Three, two, one."
"start!"
Before the end of the broadcast, both sides of the battle used star cards almost simultaneously.
Lu Li summoned the Bright Spear Blade without hesitation, while Ma Baoguo, after seeing Lu Li's choice, slowly summoned the Lightning Whip to respond.
"Bang bang bang!"
Due to the order in which the star cards were used, Lu Li seized the opportunity and pulled the trigger first, shooting three luminous bullets.
Ma Baoguo dodged as he rushed forward, nimbly dodging these three long-range attacks.
"This feeling is the same as Lu Li's first battle." Xiao Ma started to think divergently at the critical moment.
This scene now reminded him of Lu Li's first battle in the ring when he first joined the training group.
The same star blade starts, the same long shot starts.
"Since you didn't choose to use the vibration knife to start, the situation is very clear."
Ma Baoguo's confidence suddenly surged. With a shake of his hand, the whip flashed with thunder and lightning, and he quickly reached out: "The victory in the first game belongs to me."
