The wind is calm and the sun is beautiful, with no clouds in the sky.
Beijian City Center, Eagle Nest Dueling Ground.
There are huge crowds of people and it’s so hot!
The auditorium was already crowded and loud.
A total of twenty-six high school teams in Beijian City are gathered here!
This event has attracted a lot of attention, no less than the biennial Municipal Games.
Delegations from more than a dozen well-known universities across China were invited to attend and took their seats at the judges' table.
At this moment, teams from various universities were walking into the Eagle's Nest one after another, signaling to the audience.
Su Ran walked in the back row of the four-person phalanx and entered the Eagle's Nest.
The moment you walk into the infield from the passage, your field of vision suddenly becomes wider and brighter.
What caught my eye was the bright sunlight on the sky and the countless crowds of people in the auditorium below.
The applause and cheers reached their peak again.
This is enough to show the strength and popularity of Beijian No. 1 Middle School in the entire city.
For Su Ran, this was truly a big scene after coming to the new world.
Such an atmosphere made him both excited and a little nervous.
Xia Muxue and Sunai, who were walking at the front, were both swordsmen who had participated in various competitions, large and small, and they were the two who seemed the calmest at this time.
The Second Middle School, which followed the First Middle School and made its final appearance, seemed to be even more popular than the First Middle School.
Surprisingly, Su Ran recognized a familiar person among them - the leader of No. 2 Middle School, Xia Zijie with dark circles under his eyes.
Su Ran was startled.
This man is actually the captain of No. 2 Middle School?
"Sure enough, Beijian City is still too small. You can meet good brothers wherever you go..." Su Ran complained silently.
Following Xia Zijie were two girls and a boy.
Han Meimei is 180cm tall and 180cm heavy. She is a heavy swordsman and a well-deserved muscular female warrior.
Cheng Jiahui, Xuan Jianxiu, a short-legged lolita who is completely opposite to the former.
Jiang Kai is a thin arc sword cultivator who seems to have no sense of existence.
But Xia Zijie himself is a lightsaber cultivator.
Su Ran was not surprised, because when he met him in the alchemy room before, the latter was carrying a lightsaber.
From this point of view, No. 2 Middle School is a relatively comprehensive team because it has all types of swordsmen.
"If we play a team competition this year, the opponent's lineup will indeed be quite strong." Sunai said.
There are two forms of inter-school leagues, one is the arena competition and the other is the team competition.
Every year, the format of the competition is determined by drawing lots before the start of the competition.
Many people feel that this system is very unreasonable, but in fact it is to prevent participating teams from practicing targeted competition systems and ignore all-round development.
In other words, an excellent swordsman must be outstanding enough regardless of personal ability or team ability!
The delegations from prestigious schools sitting on the judges' bench also valued this ability.
"But if it's an arena match, the situation is different." Sunai continued to add, "There is an arc sword cultivator on the opposite side who is not good at one-on-one, and the overall strength will be slightly reduced."
"Have you forgotten Xia Zijie?" Chen Yunfei interrupted, "When it comes to single combat, lightsaber cultivators are the weakest."
"Theoretically, that's the case." Sunai said, "But Xia Zijie is different."
"What's the difference?"
"He is very strong." Sunai said simply.
"Tsk!" Chen Yunfei was very disdainful, "In the final analysis, isn't he still a lightsaber cultivator who is only qualified to play support and hold a thigh? No matter how strong he is, how strong can he be?"
"It only means that you are too shallow." Sunai said lightly.
Chen Yunfei refused: "Then tell me, what are our chances of winning against No. 2 Middle School?"
"40% for the team competition and 50% for the group competition."
"Are you kidding me?" Chen Yunfei raised his eyebrows exaggeratedly, "How can it be only 50% for the group competition!"
"I said, Xia Zijie is very strong." Sunai said calmly, "If it were another person, it would be 80%."
"funny!"
Chen Yunfei sneered,
"No matter how strong he is, can he still defeat us all by himself!?"
"To enhance others' ambition and destroy your own prestige, is this your courage as a captain?"
Sunai was too lazy to pay attention to him.
Instead, it was Xia Muxue who spoke up:
"Although I really don't want to hurt you, in fact, we don't even have a 50% chance of winning."
"I came to the league this year with no intention of winning the championship."
"I just want to behave a little better so that the alumni of Kyoto Ken University can notice me."
"Don't beat around the bush for me." Chen Yunfei said coldly, "Just tell me directly, what are our chances of winning?"
"Zero." Xia Muxue said every word, "Against No. 2 Middle School, we only have zero."
zero?
Su Ran frowned.
Doesn't this mean that they will lose?
"hehe!"
Chen Yunfei laughed out loud and said with a strange air,
"Hey, I finally figured it out. It turns out that in Beijian No. 1 Middle School, only cowards can rank first and second in grade!"
"Tell me, why are we losing?"
Xia Muxue said loudly: "Because, Xia Zijie is my brother."
"?" Su Ran was stunned.
This reversal almost reached his waist.
Unexpectedly, that gloomy man with dark circles was actually the powerful brother that Xia Muxue always talked about?
"So I know exactly what level he is." Xia Muxue said solemnly, "None of you can be his opponent."
"Surrendering without a fight, is this your consciousness?" Chen Yunfei scolded angrily, "Let alone your brother today, even if your father goes up to fight me in a duel, I will knock his head off on the spot!"
"You..." Xia Muxue was so angry that she was speechless.
"Stop talking to me!" Seeing that there seemed to be some internal strife in the team, Sunai interrupted coldly, "If you have anything to say, we can wait until the school-level league is over."
Both of them snorted coldly and stopped talking to the others.
"Although the teams this year are very strong, they are not united at all." Su Ran thought with some worry, "If we get into the team competition, the problem will be serious."
Then, the game officially started.
After the official pre-match procedures were completed, the live action of the match was displayed on the big screen in the duel venue.
The results of the draw were announced soon.
"This year's competition format is -" the host announced, "the arena competition!"
Hearing this, Su Ran also breathed a sigh of relief in her heart.
Fortunately, they were lucky enough to encounter the arena competition.
If you are playing in an arena, teamwork is not so important.
In the arena format, the first player from both sides to play is randomly selected.
Both sides wear safety charms to duel. After a duel is over, the winner can continue to defend the next match with the broken safety charm.
For example, if a winning player has 50 points left in the safety symbol, he can continue to defeat the next attacker with these 50 points.
so.
If the attacker is strong enough to absolutely crush his opponent.
He can beat two with one!
Even one against three!
After returning to the backcourt, everyone got the battle table.
They still need to play three group matches before reaching the finals.
They are the fifth middle school, the seventh middle school, and the ninth middle school.
In these small high schools, there are basically no players who can control the situation. If nothing else happens, they can basically crush them all the way.
The results were also as expected.
In the duel between the five, Sunai, who was the first to play, directly defeated the three opponents and won the game.
In the showdown with No. 7, Xia Muxue was the first to play, and he still won with the same result.
There is no suspense at all.
At the end of the whole day, Su Ran just sat on the bench without any chance to play.
Not to mention him as a substitute, even Chen Yunfei in the starting lineup had no chance.
It wasn't until the next day when the game was in the ninth, coincidentally, Chen Yunfei was also selected to play first.
Although there were some twists and turns in the middle of the game, in the end Chen Yunfei still managed to successfully complete one through three and win the game.
"Little dark horse."
"It feels like sitting on the bench, doesn't it feel good?"
After the game, Chen Yunfei patted Su Ran sitting in the audience with a playful smile.
Su Ran was too lazy to continue bickering with him. Chen Yunfei was bored for a moment, so he had to smile disdainfully and walk away.
"Did you find anything?"
Sunai walked to Su Ran and asked.
"That's right."
Su Ran smiled helplessly.
Although he has been sitting on the bench for the past two days, he is not sitting around doing nothing.
He has been paying attention to the situation of the No. 2 Middle School team.
From yesterday to now, he has watched a total of three duels between the two middle schools, and has a general understanding of their strong rivals.
The situation of the second middle school team is similar to theirs, and they basically crush their opponents all the way.
If nothing else goes wrong, they will face off against No. 2 Middle School in the finals.
But there was one detail that made Su Ran a little concerned.
That is, in one of the games, Xia Zijie was originally supposed to take the lead, but not long after he came on the field, he was replaced by substitute Han Meimei.
Apart from deliberately hiding herself, Su Ran couldn't think of any suitable reason.
But from this point of view, it is absolutely unmistakable that Xia Zijie is the trump card of No. 2 Middle School.
It's just that from the beginning to the end, No. 1 High School couldn't figure out Xia Zijie's strength.
Even Xia Muxue didn't quite know if her brother was practicing any new sword skills recently.
But according to her, Xia Zijie is indeed a lightsaber cultivator who is good at using sword formations.
Su Ran also suggested to the team to find ways to obtain some information about Xia Zijie, but neither Chen Yunfei nor Xia Muxue took it to heart.
Chen Yunfei simply didn't take Xia Zijie seriously.
Xia Muxue, on the other hand, had no intention of winning at all.
This is very confusing.
After two days of competition, the top ten, top five and top three have all been decided.
Now there is only the last game left, which is the finals between the first and second middle schools.
But now, not only did they not figure out Xia Zijie's sword skills, but everyone in the team had more or less revealed many of their own moves.
Fortunately, Sunai's more intimidating Steel Flash has not been used so far.
