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Chapter 120 Filled with Righteous Indignation

The third layer of luck was like a wall, blocking Chu Liang's path and hindering his development.

He stared at the newly opened reward cards on the screen—three more cards that he had no use for at all. Forcing them into the deck would only pollute the deck, so it was no different from not drawing them at all.

He hesitated for a few seconds, but still clicked "Skip". After four consecutive battles, he had not gotten any of the cards he wanted.

Aside from a bunch of low-quality sword-forging cards, his deck consisted of other low-quality transition cards. The key components of his StarCraft deck seemed to have evaporated, with not a single one appearing.

When they reached the second powerful enemy, the "Slime Berserker," the battle line was stretched out due to insufficient damage output, and he suffered heavy losses.

As for Zuo Shi, since he was originally a sword-forging type, his damage ceiling was high enough, and his deck was basically formed by the third level, so he was not greatly affected by the card draw.

When he got to this point, aside from being slow to start and prone to taking some damage, he was generally able to defeat the smaller monsters smoothly.

By following the question mark bonfire route, they have surpassed Chu Liang in progress and are continuing to advance steadily.

Chu Liang stopped clicking on the next room.

He began to think that if he continued down this path, he would either die from the mobs or barely make it to the boss, only to be killed by it.

His deck foundation is too weak; the minions will only get stronger and stronger, and the battle losses will increase, while the deck is still a long way from being fully formed.

Regardless of which path you choose, the outcome will be the same.

It can't go on like this!

He forced himself to calm down.

Draw cards, draw cards, and draw cards again. Hoping to draw cards is tantamount to entrusting your fate to "luck."

He suddenly remembered that during the previous five months of training, he had encountered countless situations where the entire game would collapse because he couldn't draw one or two key cards.

His winning percentage is often stuck as a result, and sometimes the outcome depends purely on one or two lucky moments. If he's lucky, he'll win; if he's unlucky, he won't.

However, when he recalled the several Black Night combat videos he had repeatedly studied, he realized that such a situation had never occurred before.

Even the worst-case scenario will gradually improve through certain means.

In cases of good luck, one can advance smoothly and win faster and better. Overall, there is absolutely no problem of luck affecting the win rate or causing the entire game to collapse.

He began to reflect on his consistent way of thinking; he was too fond of betting everything on luck at one or two key points.

Because all the mainstream guides and professional videos he had seen told him that this game is a game where luck plays a very large role.

Luck can determine life or death, victory or defeat. This is a normal phenomenon in this game, a universally acknowledged truth.

What the players need to do is to maximize their advantage when they are lucky and minimize their losses when they are unlucky.

This is why mainstream strategies emphasize minimizing or avoiding battles most of the time to reduce losses caused by randomness.

But now it seems he had no choice but to start. Was this line of thinking wrong?

He recalled a gameplay video of Black Dawn that he had watched before. In that battle, Black Dawn had just defeated two elites, was low on health, and still had a terrible hand.

However, he decisively abandoned the fire-mark route on the right and chose the elite shop route on the left to continue fighting the third elite.

He remembered that it was a dense forest map at the time. Hei Xi had just finished defeating two elites, "Donis Bird" and "Parasyte Frog". The last elite was definitely "Old Statue".

This elite has extremely high requirements for both attack and defense, and is considered by all mainstream understandings in the Dragon Kingdom to be the strongest elite in the dense forest.

Given the limited defensive and offensive capabilities in the early stages, the continuous 25 damage attacks every round after the third round are extremely dangerous.

If your deck isn't very strong and your health is good, it's not recommended to fight this elite. In this case, you should go to the right side to heal.

However, instead of avoiding the battle by walking through the fire to recover health, Hei Xi chose to fight even though he knew it was an old statue.

He remembered that Hei Xi used a bottle of "Vulnerability Potion" that he had saved up from fighting monsters, and then used a "Celestial Power" card with the "Sharpness" enchantment to kill the statue in two rounds.

It wasn't given a chance to make a move, so it didn't suffer any damage. This gave him quite a shock when he watched the video, but he didn't think about the logic behind it.

Now that he suddenly realized it, he felt a chill run down his spine because it was not a random decision-making mistake or a risky act at all, but the result of careful calculation!

Hei Xi knew he would encounter the statue, and he also knew the statue's mechanism: the damage from playing cards accumulates, and the goal is to kill it quickly.

Therefore, I had stored this Vulnerability Potion a long time ago to develop targeted countermeasures, thereby compensating for the lack of cards and health.

This shows that not only is their previously accepted idea of ​​"preserving health and avoiding battle" wrong, but their long-held belief in "luck and chance of winning" is also completely "self-deception".

Because not only card decks and health, but also potions, relics, and even event enchantments are all resources that can be utilized.

In the past, they often neglected to utilize resources outside of their decks, which often forced them to rely on the quality of their decks to determine the outcome of their matches.

This leads them to be extremely dependent on the quality of the cards they draw, which is purely a matter of luck. This is the origin of the so-called "luck determines everything" mentality!

Thinking about this, he suddenly realized that Hei Xi had thought of far more than he had imagined. This layer of logic, which he hadn't noticed before, now became his lifeline.

He suddenly realized something, took a deep breath, and started moving his fingers on the mouse again.

He followed Hei Xi's example, abandoning the original route through the monster campfire and instead taking the route through the elite shop.

Since you're going to die anyway fighting regular monsters, you might as well fight elites and go to the shop; that might change things.

Some people in the audience noticed his choice and whispered among themselves, "What is he doing? Doesn't he know he's low on health?"

A few minutes later, he defeated the elite "Mech Knight" with only twenty-odd drops of health remaining, and the item "Flesh and Bone" dropped.

He went into the shop, and although he still didn't find the card he wanted, he used his accumulated money to buy the relic "kunai" and a bottle of potion, and then continued to progress, and the situation gradually improved.

Ye Fei watched all this through the camera and nodded slightly: "At least it's not so stiff anymore."

A few minutes later, both of them reached the final boss of the third floor, the "Queen". Although Chu Liang cleverly used relics and potions to reduce a lot of battle losses, he still died due to insufficient output.

A few dozen seconds later, Sōshi could no longer control the high battle damage and was eventually defeated by the Queen's main body with a wave of "7×5" super high damage, resulting in a regrettable defeat.

Both players were defeated, their progress nearly identical, leaving the audience in awe. Some commented that this seed was incredibly unlucky; anyone who came would perish, and their performance was already remarkably good.

Although Chu Liangkao lost, he did not feel very frustrated; on the contrary, he felt somewhat relieved.

Since both of them lost, the judges did not announce the results on the spot, but said they would make a comprehensive evaluation based on the replay and asked them to go down and wait for notification.

In the monitoring room, Ye Fei turned off the screen, calmly took a sip of his drink, and had already made up his mind.

Shortly after, Chu Liang was summoned to Ye Fei's office. He pushed open the door and found two people already waiting in the room.

Zuo Shi stood in front of the desk, his expression indifferent, staring at the door. The person sitting behind the desk was instantly stunned.

This is none other than Hei Xi, the "cyber master" he has been "spiritually communicating" with every day for the past five months!

"Hei—Brother Hei Xi?" Chu Liang's voice trembled slightly. He had never known which team or organization a player of Hei Xi's skill level played for.

Now that he saw him sitting in Xingyuan's office, he suddenly had the answer. It turned out that he worked in Xingyuan's team, the "King of the Dragon Kingdom". That made everything make sense.

Ye Fei interrupted him: "Call me Ye Fei. You can call me by my real name now."

Chu Liang felt a surge of barely suppressed excitement. He had originally come for the Dragon Kingdom's Machine King, wanting to test the waters and see the results of his five months of training.

Unexpectedly, I ran into Hei Xi here. They happen to be colleagues, which is undoubtedly a win-win situation.

Ye Fei skipped the pleasantries and said directly, "I watched the entire match just now."

Chu Liang straightened up and held his breath.

Ye Fei paused for a moment: "While your skill level is still far from sufficient, based on your overall performance, I have decided—"

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"You can all stay."

"Chu Liang, you'll start as a reserve player. Zuo Shi, you don't need to leave either."

Chu Liang's eyes lit up; he hadn't expected to actually succeed. Zuo Shi, however, had a stiff expression and didn't seem very happy.

"Wait a minute." Zuo Shi suddenly spoke, his voice unexpectedly sharp, a stark contrast to his usual gentle and compliant demeanor.

"Is this Captain Xingyuan's intention?"

"No. It was my decision," Ye Fei replied naturally.

Zuo Shi's expression changed. He turned to look at Ye Fei, his eyes filled with doubt.

He recognized the man; he was Xingyuan's henchman, a staff member in the logistics department.

Logically speaking, his status should be lower than that of the team captain, or even lower than that of a senior player.

Now this person is casually telling him that whether he stays or leaves is up to him?

"Are you kidding me? You're keeping this guy? Didn't you see what he just did?" Zuo Shi asked him back.

"When he was fighting on the third floor, he even chose the wrong route. When you're low on health and encounter an elite, you should avoid fighting! Instead of risking it and gambling with your luck!"

"Any professional player knows that this game has a high degree of randomness, so you should reduce uncontrollable factors and avoid battles."

"He doesn't even understand this basic principle; he's not fit to be a professional. And you still want him to stay as a team member?"

"I think you're just an amateur; you're probably just someone who works with connections, aren't you?"

Zuo Shi only respected two people in his life: former captain Xiang Chu and Xing Yuan. He respected no one else and no one else's word carried weight.

Therefore, upon seeing Ye Fei "spreading rumors," he immediately revealed his true colors, reversed his attitude, and blurted out his true thoughts.

Ye Fei was momentarily stunned by his words, thinking he had mistaken him for someone else.

"What gives you the right to make decisions for Xingyuan? Do you think you own the team?"