Arknights, please stop going crazy over the streamer's operators.

He stretched out his hand, and the others followed suit, placing their hands on top of Li Ji's.

This is something that almost every team does when tackling the cracks, and Li Ji doesn't need to say much; everyone seems to be on the same page and comes together.

"Come on, count down, three, two, one..."

After everyone's hands were stacked together, Li Ji loudly counted down.

As palms were raised together, cheers echoed throughout the town.

Perhaps it was this shout that awakened the town beneath their feet.

The essence of evolution finally appeared in the distance of the town...

It was draped in a tattered white cloth, beneath which writhing, deformed limbs supported its disproportionately large, spherical head at an unbelievable angle, with sharp, crimson bone spurs and tentacles exposed, constantly twisting and writhing.

Even though I had seen its deformed and distorted appearance in the recent combat footage.

But when it actually appeared before my eyes, I couldn't help but feel a chill run down my spine.

"Don't worry about the Boss. Your job is to guard the mobs. I'll figure out how to handle the others."

"Similarly, you don't need to worry about sandstorms. I will deploy you behind reinforced sand shelters to protect you from the sandstorms."

After Li Ji finished speaking, he immediately positioned two vanguards on either side of the fork in the road.

Above them were the vanguards from other teams, while Ines relieved the pressure on the flanks.

The pressure in the early stages of this map isn't too great. The Boss, still in its nascent form, only summons a mutated creature every five seconds.

The initial trouble simply comes from having a large number of enemies that can split upon death.

However, with the binding effect of Ines and the slowing effect of Shadow Whistle in the early stages, it was enough for Li Ji to set up the defensive line.

Not to mention that she can use her second skill, Dark Night Nameless, to drastically reduce the number of monsters in the early game.

"Judging from her appearance, I was wondering if she was a new special agent... but she turned out to be a vanguard."

Tian Sheng, watching Ines on the field from the waiting area, thought to himself in surprise.

Because Li Ji has never used this operator named Ines in his live streams.

So this was the first time she had seen Ines on the battlefield.

But what's even more surprising is the talent and ability that Ines displayed on the field!

"What is this Vanguard...? It doesn't even need to activate its skill to bind every enemy unit that enters its attack range!"

Tian Sheng and the other operators who were waiting for deployment looked at each other in bewilderment.

Their eyes all revealed surprise.

Such functionality goes beyond simply being described as 'outrageous'.

It's worth noting that an operator who can control the enemy with just a normal attack is a valuable asset to any team.

Needless to say, she was also a pioneer who needed to withstand pressure in the early stages.

While numerical values ​​can always be surpassed, useful talents will never be retired with the changing times!

"What kind of Nightmare Amalgam is this? It even has stealth, increased attack speed, and reduced enemy movement speed when activated... Why does it make every operator seem like they don't exist?"

Not only Tian Sheng, but everyone else in the team also felt a bit like they were in a dream when they saw Ines.

It should be noted that those who can stand here are basically the most elite operators from Yan Country.

How could they not understand the business?

Ines was an intelligence officer, and even a vanguard.

She is almost the perfect pioneer, the dream vanguard of every team.

Such control and self-preservation abilities almost guarantee that she can survive in any high-pressure situation and complete the most important task of a vanguard operator: controlling the early stage of the battle and replenishing resources.

Not to mention, her talent and skills can bring many other benefits to the team.

"Luckily, Yan has a wall, otherwise if foreign teams discovered during Wanfeng's live stream that Rhodes Island was hiding so many 'big shots' from other countries, they would have rushed in like madmen to snatch them away!"

Even the elite soldiers on the sidelines were watching Ines chop vegetables and slice melons, while they could only occasionally hold off two stray creatures.

Teren also felt that life was bleak.

"Damn, when will I be able to become like that?"

He idly hacked down two superfluous creatures while sighing and muttering to himself.

Unfortunately.

Although Ines's presence greatly reduced his stress.

But the nature of evolution wouldn't allow him to just sit there bored.

With the payment restored, the essence of evolution unleashed its first full-screen charged attack.

The 900 points of true damage instantly reduced his health by half.

Ines also lost a third of her health in the explosion.

This made the soldier's boredom rise to his throat again.

However, with this charged attack, Li Ji also deployed the Flame Shadow Reeds towards the Boss from the lower right platform.

The two vanguards struggled to withstand the first wave of aberration golem attacks, especially after Ines's ability duration expired.

They will most likely miss the mutated offspring that the enemy splits off.

Therefore, Li Ji chose to use Flame Shadow Reed to alleviate the pressure brought by this gap period, and it can also provide a certain amount of healing for the two vanguards.

After Flame Shadow Reed's skill bar was ready, Li Ji immediately activated Flame Shadow Reed's skill.

The blazing flames exploded in the sandstorm, instantly engulfing the struggling enemy in front of them, and the light continued to spread backward along with several mutated puppets.

Both vanguards were restored to full health at this moment.

"She looks more like a blood pump than a milker."

After watching Yan Yingweicao instantly eliminate a dozen or so enemy units linked together and fully restore the health of the two vanguards, Tiansheng suddenly complained.

"It's like transferring the enemy's health to your own teammates. As long as you kill all the enemies, your own operators will be safe."

"Stop complaining, it's your turn to go on stage."

Li Ji looked at Tian Sheng, who was still silently complaining behind him, and kicked her onto the field.

The strategy for defeating the boss has only just begun.

The first phase of the boss will deal significantly less damage to units on the left.

Without a second thought, he immediately placed Tiansheng in the grid to the lower right of the Boss.

Although Tian Sheng was watching the show, he was always in a state of readiness.

Upon receiving Li Ji's orders, she immediately threw herself into the battlefield.

Based on the available information, the boss in front of us doesn't have very high defense; it just has its own unique damage reduction mechanism.

As a rapid-fire character, Tian Sheng's third skill naturally increases attack power and the number of targets, although it does not change the number of attacks or reduce the attack interval.

But it's used to attack the essence of evolution, which only has a mere 500 defense.

That skill level is sufficient.

Unfortunately, Tian Sheng, as a six-star rapid-fire character, does not have a shield that can block damage like Kong Xian, and her health is also ridiculously low.

Even at Elite 2 and max level, it only has an astonishing 1430 points.

It only has 200 more health points than a certain five-star squishy fast-shooter.

This made it difficult for her to withstand two full-screen attacks that dealt up to 900 damage each.

Therefore, Li Ji placed her in the lower slot so that Tian Sheng could also benefit from the healing effect of the Flame Shadow Reed.

In this way, Tian Sheng gradually refined the essence of evolution into the second stage.

Li Ji's side gradually established its own battle lines.

Looking at the scattered operators on his side, Li Ji was reminded of the days when he used Little Monk to eliminate evil and Nut to kite A.

If Li Ji hadn't been afraid of arousing suspicion from others, he would have wanted to bring Arturo over directly.

Let everyone here experience what it means to be:

"I have a game on my phone where bugs die when they hear someone playing the piano.jpg"

However, it seems this scene will have to wait until next time.

"Hold the line, the pressure is about to come."

As Li Ji spoke, he removed Tian Sheng and immediately deployed a medical operator in Tian Sheng's position to reduce the team's healing pressure.

When the essence of evolution reaches the second stage, its true damage will also increase further.

Keeping Tiansheng around now is simply increasing the burden on the medical system.

Just a second before Tian Sheng knocked the boss into invincibility, Li Ji placed the mace next to the boss.

They even placed a high-energy stone bomb on a high platform in the grass on the left.

But by sheer coincidence, just as the mace landed, a mutated giant rock spider capable of ranged attacks appeared from the red door below.