Luther's opponent in the second round of qualifying is a fifteen-year-old girl named Airi, who is also from Black Gold City.
The Black Gold City reminded Luther of Li Ming in the first battle.
When he arrived near the battle arena, Luther was stunned.
Near the entrance, Li Ming folded his hands and leaned on the wind speed dog, as if waiting for someone.
"I thought you had left Suzuli Island." Luther took the initiative to say hello.
Seeing Luther, Li Ming smiled and said, "For some special reasons, we have temporarily decided to stay one more day."
Li Ming took out the backpack hanging from Fengsu Dog for a while and took out a large bag of colorful candies.
"Marylou, this is for you."
Mary Lu, who was adjusting her posture at Luther's feet and preparing to fight, was stunned for a moment and subconsciously caught the candy thrown by Liming.
"Suzuran Island's famous fruit gummies, I waited in line for a long time to buy them. I bribed you. Play well in today's game. I'm here waiting for Airi to be eliminated."
After listening to Liming's words, Luther seemed to understand something.
Marilou also understood. She quickly tore open the bag, peeled off a fruit gummy and threw it into her mouth, wagging her tail at Liming.
Seeing Mary Lou in high spirits, Luther was thinking, if Mary Lou can maintain a good condition, why not let her play the whole game?
After Luther left, Li Ming sat down against the Wind Speed Dog and took out a second bag of fruit gummies from his backpack. He enjoyed the flavor of the fruit gummies with Wind Speed Dog, Mengge Cactus and the others while holding a sandwich taken from the restaurant.
While basking in the sun.
As the game approached, a girl wearing white short-sleeves, gray cropped pants, and a single ponytail passed by Li Ming.
"This young lady is about to enter the third round. Li Ming, do you have anything you want to say to me?" Airi looked at Li Ming with a smile.
"Just try your best."
Before Li Ming finished speaking, Airi walked into the passage with her ponytail swaying.
Airi had no chance of winning, and Tomoyo was convinced of this.
At the same time, they set off from Black Gold City and competed with each other so many times, but Airi never won once. Li Ming knew very well how strong she was.
She had good luck in the first round, but her luck could not continue. In the second round, Airi bumped into Luther.
After being eliminated, Airi laughed at Li Ming that he couldn't even deal with a Marylou, so he could only lower his head and say yes again and again.
After all, it's just a Marylou.
Airi said that she would go all the way to the main stage and let Li Ming witness it all.
Li Ming canceled his ticket to leave today. He decided to postpone his departure and stay to witness all this.
So he exchanged the boat ticket for tomorrow.
The excited voices of the commentators can also be heard outside the venue, and the battle scenes inside the venue are also played on the electronic screen.
"This is really terrifying. The leaf blade skill was just eaten by Marilou. It seemed that she completely ignored the attribute restraint. Marilou defeated the big food flower with only one freezing punch."
Li Ming could picture the battle scene in his mind without even looking.
At Airi's speed, Luther's Marylou can easily defeat the Big Flower without even needing Miaomiao to use the magic space.
"Player Airi's second elf is a three-in-one Magnemite with very advantageous attributes. Will Player Luther exchange it... Oh~ Player Luther still chooses to let Marylou stay."
"Marylou actually nimbly dodged a hundred thousand volts, and knocked out the three-in-one Magnemite with a single blast. What kind of strange power is this? Doesn't Airi player have no spirit to stop Marylou?
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Li Ming stood up slowly, checked his backpack, and found that he had indeed packed a handkerchief and prepared tissues.
He took out the handkerchief and put it in his coat pocket, and put the tissue in his pants pocket. After doing all this, the voice of the explanation squeezed into Li Ming's ears.
"It's so unreasonable. The lamp monster's 100,000 volts clearly hit Marylou, but Marylou withstood the damage of 100,000 volts and used brute force skills to smash the lamp monster directly out of the battlefield."
"Player Luther and his Mary Lou once again showed terrifying strength, and they were able to advance to the third round of the direct elimination system."
Near the battle channel, Luther and Marylou walked out first. Luther, who wanted to turn back to the auditorium, stopped when he saw Li Ming's figure.
Airi behind Luther also stopped immediately, shook hands with Luther, lowered his head, and walked out of the passage.
Mary Lou held up the fruit gummy and waved to Li Ming, and Li Ming also stretched out his hand and waved twice.
Airi walked all the way to Liming, raised her head, gritted her teeth and said, "Just laugh if you want."
Before leaving, Luther made a "come on" mouth gesture to Li Ming, which made Li Ming couldn't help but chuckle, and then stopped immediately.
"Do you want to cry?"
"Huh? Who do you think I am? It's just a small loss. How could I... cry...?"
It's been like this since I was a child. I can't bear it even if I want to, and my emotions are written all over my face. I've always been so easy to understand.
Seeing Airi wilting little by little and squatting on the ground sobbing, Li Ming sighed and asked Mengge Cactus and Wind Speed Dog to help block it.
"Here you go, a handkerchief."
As soon as the sobbing Airi took the handkerchief, she immediately came to her senses and said in a tearful tone: "Did you think I would cry?"
"yes."
Airi's tears were rolling. She wanted to accuse Li Ming of not being able to speak human words, but she finally swallowed it.
"More than 500 people were eliminated in the first round. Some people were unable to advance to the second round because of bad luck. Some people were not strong enough and were overturned by weaker people. But in the final analysis, everything is a matter of strength."
"Good luck requires a similar level of strength to be useful."
Li Ming took out the bag of fruit gummies he had queued for three hours from his backpack.
"You have liked eating this since you were a child. I went to buy it specially. How many pills can you take to refresh your mood?"
Airi was stunned when she saw the colorful fruit gummies. She cried and peeled off the sugar coating: "I thought I surpassed you."
"There will be many opportunities in the future." Li Ming replied.
Li Ming rubbed the wind speed dog's head: "Actually, it's quite good. Although you lost miserably, you also have the memories and experience of fighting against top trainers. Such an opportunity is rare for many people."
"Let's work harder. Let's come back in two years. It won't work after two years. It won't work after four years. The road has to be walked step by step. After all, didn't she say it when I met Kikuno-senpai yesterday?"
"Opportunities are always left to us."
Luther and Mary Lou did not leave. They were burning with gossip and looked at each other from a distance for a long time.
Although I don't know what Toshiaki and Airi are talking about, I can clearly see that Airi's sobbing frequency has become less frequent.
After a while, Li Ming took Airi's hand and left.
Before leaving, Li Ming stretched out his free left hand and waved to Luther, who was hiding in the corner with his head exposed.