Full-time: The Strongest Sniper

The brick came so suddenly that even Lin Jingyan felt a cold sweat break out on his back. He immediately began to search for the source of the brick. As he turned his perspective, he quickly discovered that a thug who was not Baqi Xiongtu was punching and kicking him, using his skills haphazardly, and just like that, he attacked.

This scene completely baffled Lin Jingyan. What was going on? So that brick attack was just a lucky fluke? Lin Jingyan had previously thought he had been discovered and that someone was trying to ambush him, but now that he saw the other person being harassed by ordinary players, he stopped paying attention.

Normally, since the other party is also a rogue, he would observe them a bit more. But now he is the commander of this team, and there are many things to pay attention to on the battlefield. After all, their goal is the wild boss, not to care about the skill level of a particular player on the other side.

"Senior Lin, why don't you come out and have some fun?" Xiao Nai said to the Tyranny team on the other side.

Xiao Nai has great respect for these seniors in the professional league. After all, they and the league went through the most difficult period together, and they all deserve credit for the current prosperity of the domestic professional league.

Lin Jingyan naturally heard Xiao Nai's challenge. Seeing that Xiao Nai was focusing his attacks on the rogue players of Tyranny, he knew that Xiao Nai was definitely looking for him. However, Lin Jingyan was not a rookie like Lu Hanwen, and he wouldn't be bothered by the provocation of a newcomer like Xiao Nai, not to mention that Xiao Nai was accompanied by Su Mucheng and a group of experts whose strength clearly surpassed that of online game players. If his identity were exposed now, he would definitely be surrounded and attacked.

Their advantage lies in overall strength, but their opponents are still stronger in certain areas. Naturally, he wouldn't use his weaknesses to fight against their strengths, but rather focus on how to fully utilize his own advantages.

Lin Jingyan's tactics were very clear: control the local area and leverage the overall team's strengths. Tactically speaking, Lin Jingyan's arrangement could be described as very scientific, because he was well aware that this was not a professional match and he didn't need to go out and fight one-on-one with the opponent.

After all, his best partner was a master of the sly style, and over the years, Lin Jingyan had obviously absorbed some of the other's strengths. Now he was directly using his rogue-like style to fight in a sly manner, throwing a brick here, a Molotov cocktail there, and sneaking up with poison needles that were not easy to spot.

In short, the strategy is to avoid direct confrontation and hide oneself as much as possible, while using ranged skills to restrain Xiao Nai and his team and giving command, making the most of the team's advantages.

Xiao Nai was well aware that dealing with a veteran like Lin Jingyan, with his wealth of experience and awareness, was far more difficult than dealing with newcomers like Lu Hanwen or Zhao Yuzhe. Thinking about it, he realized he was also a newcomer; just yesterday he and Xiao Shiqin had bullied Lu Hanwen, and now he was being entangled by a veteran. It really felt like karma, a case of what goes around comes around.

Even with Lin Jingyan holding them back, Xiao Nai couldn't disrupt the enemy's formation for a while. Although Xiao Nai and his team didn't retreat, they were ultimately locked in a stalemate. But now that the wild boss was in the enemy's hands, their goal was to buy time.

Meanwhile, the battle between Ye Xiu and Zhang Xinjie also reached a stalemate. Although Xiao Nai and his team still held the overall advantage on both sides, time was running out.

With a system notification, the wild boss was finally killed by the player from the "Overbearing Ambition" faction.

Even Xiao Nai, after fighting a boss, still couldn't find Lin Jingyan in the enemy's formation.

Of course, this was also partly due to Zhang Xinjie's scheming against Xiao Nai. Zhang Xinjie knew very well how sharp Xiao Nai's eyes were, so he deliberately arranged for many thugs to be present in Lin Jingyan's group, with many at the back of the line. Even Xiao Nai couldn't attack all the thugs at once, so he naturally couldn't determine who Lin Jingyan was based on their reactions.

The opposing team clearly had no intention of self-destructing; they left immediately after defeating the wild boss. This left Xiao Nai slightly frustrated. There was nothing he could do; Lin Jingyan's appearance was too sudden. Although Xiao Nai had also studied Lin Jingyan, this wasn't a one-on-one battle. As a result, he felt powerless to use the resources he gained from the wild boss. Although he had dominated the Tyrannical Ambition team throughout the battle, and they hadn't suffered many losses, even acquiring a considerable amount of equipment, it was all insignificant compared to the materials from the wild boss.

After all, if you don't manage to snatch the wild boss, even if you inflict a thousand damage on the enemy but lose five hundred on yourself, you still lose.

This is only because Fang Rui hasn't left the field yet. If Fang Rui leaves the field, it will be even more troublesome.

However, now that they knew the other side was coming, Xiao Nai naturally began to engage in tactical challenges. The next two wild map bosses that spawned were each claimed by Xiao Nai's team and the Tyranny team.

With the defeat of the second boss, Zhang Xinjie's time to log off was approaching. As for whether Lin Jingyan was with them, no one knew, since Xiao Nai and Ye Xiu had not yet found Lin Jingyan.

Ye Xiu and his group went back to rest, while Xiao Nai and his team continued their nighttime adventure. With the spawning of yet another wild boss, Xiao Nai confirmed that Lin Jingyan had also logged off.

Having confirmed this, Xiao Nai said in the alliance's QQ group: "Good news, it seems Lin Jingyan won't be playing games all night. But there's also bad news, which is that we'll be facing a two-person team from Lin Jingyan and Zhang Xinjie from now on. The difficulty of competing for wild bosses will increase, and I think everyone has already experienced that."

"So what do we do now?" Zhan Loulan asked Xiao Nai.

"Can you call your team's professional players over?" Xiao Nai asked the captains of the other three guilds, since Zhan Loulan and his team's players were already there.

"This isn't something our small guild leader can decide on his own..." the three said somewhat awkwardly.

That's indeed the case. After all, there are no clauses in professional players' contracts requiring them to help their teams or guilds. So, let alone guild leaders, even clubs can't force professional players to come and help.

It could be that the professional player spontaneously offered to ask the guild for help, or the guild leader happened to have a good relationship with that professional player and played the emotional card; otherwise, there really wasn't much that could be done.

Ultimately, it's about asking for favors. People will help you grab things a few times, and that's about it. Expecting someone to come and handle things like Zhang Xinjie clocks in for work is completely impossible without the player's own willpower. And that's the current atmosphere in the professional gaming world.

It's rare for players to sacrifice their rest time unpaid for the development of their team, especially during the summer transfer period when player turnover is frequent. They might not even stay with the team afterward, so why would the other team go to the trouble of working for them for no reward? If they end up on another team and their summer's hard work benefits someone else, only to have their efforts increase, then who wouldn't feel wronged?
The kind of atmosphere that characterized Ye Xiu's generation, where players would help out in guild departments when there were no matches, has gradually disappeared with the development of the professional league. The days when top professional players would showcase their skills and compete for jungle bosses in the Glory world are probably over. (End of Chapter)