"It's strange that business seems to be much worse today than it was last year."

"Yes, today's counter shipments are only half of yesterday's."

"Where have all today's young people gone?"

"If it's like this every day, then we'll just close the door and drink the northwest wind."

On this year's Chinese New Year's Eve, many shopping mall waiters have discovered a strange phenomenon, that is, the teenagers who come out to shop on this day suddenly seem to be much less.

***

Of course, teenagers don't disappear all at once, and the reason why there are so few people who go out shopping is because these people are already waiting in front of the TV early, waiting for the race competition that is about to begin.

At 18:30 in the evening, when many people were still holding their rice bowls, the first game of the race competition began.

And on this day, Gou Xiaoyun, who stepped into the competition site, once again made Gou Xiaoyun sigh the same as when he saw the CPL venue for the first time.

"Damn, this is another place where one hundred and eighty black gold dragon Internet cafes can compare."

Although this stadium is not the super-large competition venue of the CPL, it is also the competition venue of last year's WCG qualifiers in Shanghai. Due to the intervention of many media and TV stations, the momentum was even greater than that of the CPL venue that day.

Although this kind of competition is not a formal professional competition, this competition, under Lin Dongtian's luck, is the most powerful competition in recent years. It is the first time in the interstellar history of China that so many TV stations have broadcast such a game.

Although these selected players are almost all battle-hardened figures, some people can't help but be excited and nervous at the thought of competing in front of so many people.

Even Zhou Kenglong, who often appears in the top domestic leagues, couldn't help but be a little excited and nervous when he saw the crowd like waves and thought of the audience guarding the TV all over the country.

But Zhou Kenglong was surprised to find that Gou Xiaoyun, who was sitting next to him, didn't seem to be nervous at all, but kept looking around.

Of course, Zhou Kenglong didn't know that Gou Xiaoyun was looking for his masters Gong Jian and Huang Xiaolu and others.

In the noisy stands like waves, Gou Xiaoyun found Gong Jian smiling and making victory gestures, and Huang Xiaolu grimacing at Gou Xiaoyun, as well as Witch's encouraging eyes.

***

At 18:30, the race match between the Terrans and the Zerg officially began.

The first player to represent the Zerg was none other than Dugu Feihong, a Variety Blood Demon from the Star Love Club, one of the top 32 in the CPL League.

The Star Love Club is just a team that mixes in the First Division, and under the laissez-faire management of Shen Han and Leng Xiaomei, the results of the Star Love Club can only linger in the middle.

But there is no controversy about Dugu Feihong's selection in the Zerg lineup this time, because just like the top 32 in the CPL, Dugu Feihong's selection completely depends on his own strength. The nickname of the Hundred Variety Blood Demon is, of course, not in vain.

But when Dugu Feihong appeared, almost everyone who watched the game only had regret and sympathy in their eyes when they looked at him. A kind of sympathy for the weak in the gladiatorial arena.

Because his opponent is the spear god Jiang who hates water.

Of course, there is a big gap between the best in the first division and the best in the super league, and in the interstellar, a small difference in strength can already determine the outcome of the game.

As everyone expected, in the 15th minute of the game, Jiang Hatshui defeated Dugu Feihong on the Lost Temple neatly.

The tactics of the Variety Blood Demon are still varied, and the game only lasted fifteen minutes, and Dugu Feihong's flying dragons, lurking, guardians, scorpions, mammoths and other high-level troops have all appeared.

Outflanking, attacking, booby-trapping, and airdropping Dugu Feihong's tactics don't know how many minutes have changed.

However, Jiang Hatshui defeated Dugu Feihong with only one tactic. Jiang Hatshui only used one tactic from beginning to end, and he dissolved all of Dugu Feihong's tactical combinations.

Jiang hated water with SK.

Jiang Hatshui only used this one tactic. Dugu Feihong's flying dragon, lurking, guardian and even one of the most ferocious troops on land, the mammoth, and the big bull that countless players talk about, also turned into blood in front of Jiang Hatshui's spearmen and technology balls.

When Dugu Feihong ended, he was not depressed, because Dugu Feihong had done his best.

When Dugu Feihong got off the field, he saw Nie Xiao sitting on the bench.

Even the members of the national team, Yidao Immortal Nie Xiao became a substitute for the human race in this game, so what can he be ashamed of about his loss?

***

The map for the second game is still the Lost Temple. In order to reflect the absolute fairness of the race match and prevent the imbalance between the races due to the map of the match, all the match maps are the same map, which is the lost temple with countless legends.

The map is the same map, Jiang Hates Shui's opponent, but he has changed one.

Dugu Feihong, the first player of the Zerg, came from an ordinary first-class club. Jiang Hatshui is not very familiar with Dugu Feihong. As for the second player on the field of the Zerg, Jiang Hatshui is much more familiar.

Because Liu Wu, who represents the second appearance of the Zerg, is a player from the Dragoon club.

For the players who participated in the Super League together, Jiang Hatshui was of course much more familiar, not to mention that in the previous league, Jiang Hatshui and Liu Wu had fought more than once.

None of the players taught by Lin Changxin are easy to deal with. This is one of Jiang Hatshui's years of experience in the professional league.

But Liu Wu knew better that Jiang Hatshui was also a super difficult opponent. Jiang Hatshui is one of the top Terran players in China, and his TVZ is particularly prominent. Before Lin Potian became famous, Jiang Hatshui has always been recognized as the first person in domestic TVZ, and the nickname of Gun God also describes Jiang Hatshui's ability to control his spearmen in tactics like SK.

So from the beginning, Liu Wu played very carefully and targetedly.

The disciples taught by Lin Changxin are equally outstanding in terms of brain and technique. This is almost a well-established theorem within the interstellar circle.

Lin Changxin can not only discover the characteristics of these interstellar players and stimulate their potential, but also slowly improve their cognitive ability of interstellar players, so that they can play interstellar smartly.

So many clubs will feel very difficult when playing against Dragoon Club. Some players from clubs that are obviously slightly stronger than Dragoon, when they play against their players, sometimes they lose inexplicably.

Although this seems very mysterious, but to put it bluntly, there is nothing unusual, to be able to defeat opponents who are slightly stronger than themselves, many times, relying on tactical opponents.

Planned and suppressive development is one of the secrets that Hayashi Changxin taught these dragoon players.

Liu Wuda's is very targeted.

Liu Wu, who started with a double base, burst into a team and a half dogs at the beginning, and then began to lurk violently.

Many experienced people can see at a glance that what Liu Wu uses is the tactic of suppressing Jiang Hatshui's style of play to the greatest extent.

The early strong dog can not only prevent the Terrans' initial SCV+Marinerush, but also prevent the Terrans from using tricks such as speed tank rush, and more importantly, it can also prevent Jiang Hatshui's initial spear troops from pressing their own intersection all at once.

The Zerg players who have fought with a master operator like Jiang Hatshui will know very well what kind of concept Jiang Hatshui's team of spearmen is blocking at the intersection. Under Jiang Hatshui's operation, this group of spearmen in the early days was almost like a mobile fortress. The perfect advance and retreat attack can suppress the lurking of many Zerg players, and they don't even dare to drill out of the ground.

With such a team and a half of speeding dogs, Jiang Hatshui's small team of spearmen would not be able to easily press the intersection of the Zerg.

Because even if Jiang Hatshui was very careful when he came out, he couldn't use a dog to wrap up, and the dog hiding outside could easily take advantage of the Terran troops to rush into the Terran base when they went out. Or when the first wave of their own lurking comes out, they should cooperate with the outside and carry out a perfect kill on the group of spearmen blocking the exit of their base.

And the double mine storm lurking is also a good suppression method for SK.

Because although SK can exert great power in the face of good operations, it is undeniable that any operation in the interstellar has a certain limit.

The ability of the spearman to kill the lurking varies depending on the operation, but no matter how good the operation is, it is not invincible.

Although a top master can use two spearmen to solve a buried lurk without losing a spearman. But if two spearmen encounter two buried lurks at the same time, I'm afraid that even Jimwo, who is known as the number one in the world, will not dare to say that he can use two spearmen to solve the two buried lurks together.

Because two lurking random blows can reap the life of a spearman. The master operator can use the high-speed movement of the spearman to get rid of the lurking attack, and seize the lurking attack interval to attack the lurk.

But the lives of the two spearmen, after all, are limited, and stimulants cannot be used countless times, not to mention that some Zerg masters have already mastered the latent attack interval, and in the hands of these people, the attack time of the two latent can become completely inconsistent. If you want to catch a lurking attack interval to attack, it is still achievable. But in the face of the Zerg master who can deliberately control the two latent attack targets and stagger the interval between the two latent attacks, such an operation is completely meaningless.

Therefore, any operation will have a certain limit, and such a limit is not due to the user's own ability limitations, but due to the interstellar itself.

Of course, each person's limit is different due to their own different abilities, your limit may be one team of spearmen to kill four lurking, but for a master like Jiang Hatshui, it may be a team of spearmen to kill six lurking.

Because there are boundaries, there is no tactic, and it can be called invincible and perfect. SK tactics, of course, also have a certain limit depending on the user.

Liu Wu's violent lurking tactics also wanted Jiang Hatshui's operation to exceed Jiang Hatshui's own limit.

Your limit, if a squad of spearmen kills six lurkers, then I'll give eight. This is Liu Wu's tactical thinking.

Liu Wu used a very fast speed to get out of two lurks, and under the condition of ensuring that the economy would not be harmed by the next development, such a speed was already the limit that Liu Wu felt himself.

Liu Wu used such a speed to get out of the lurk, of course, he also had a different intention.

Liu Wu knew that Jiang Hatshui's troops were slowly gathering, and his team of half-dogs was about to be unable to stop Jiang Hatshui's troops. And the two lurking, with a team and a half dogs, can block Jiang Hatshui's troops in the base. Before Jiang Hatshui's technology ball came out, Jiang Hatshui should not be able to fight hard with radar and not too many spear troops and his own combination of lurking and dogs. And when Jiang Hatshui's science and technology ball comes out, Liu Wu is also sure that he can burst out a large number of lurking and dogs that exceed Jiang Hatshui's operational limit.

The advantage of the opening of the double mine makes it not particularly difficult to implement such a tactic, as long as Jiang Hatshui is not pressed out, Liu Wu has the confidence to suppress Jiang Hatshui, and even not let Jiang Hatshui open a second mine.

When Liu Wu controlled the two lurking and ran quickly to meet the team of half-dogs outside the intersection of Jiang Hatshui Road, his body and mind were in a state of high tension. Because Liu Wu understands Jiang Hatshui's level very well, a master like Jiang Hatshui is likely to seize such an opportunity and rush out at once before he arrives.

Liu Wu, who has fought with Jiang Hatshui more than once, is of course very clear about Jiang Hatshui's ability.

What made Liu Wu breathe a sigh of relief was that when Liu Wu was controlling the lurking and burying, there were no troops rushing out at the intersection of Jiang Hatshui.

As soon as the two were buried in lurk, Liu Wu breathed a sigh of relief. He knew that if this was the case, Jiang Hatshui would not be so easy to come out.

But before Liu Wu's breath was relieved, a tiny red dot appeared on Liu Wu's minimap, and the red dot was already close to the edge of the map, quickly approaching his own base.

Liu Wu's face changed suddenly.

Liu Wu immediately knew that he had made a mistake, an unforgivable mistake.

In Liu Wu's heart, a line from Xing Ye's classic comedy film suddenly sounded: "Who said that you must have a gun head to be able to stab in?" ”

***

Liu Wu knew that he had made the same mistake as the deadly scholar in "Tang Bohu's Autumn Fragrance".

Liu Wu's face changed, and on all the TV screens, there was a lewd smile after Jiang Hatshui's treacherous plan succeeded.

"Airdrops are not something that only Chen Fangyuan will use. Boss, I also use it very well, hehe" When Jiang Hatshui's transport plane flew out, Jiang Hatshui smiled proudly.

Jiang hated water is famous for SK, but Jiang hated water, but he didn't just fight SK. To be able to defeat a master like Flyzerg in the Masters, Jiang hated water certainly relied on more than just SK and luck. A master of Jiang Hatshui's level certainly has an extremely smart brain. When Liu Wu was developing against him, Jiang Hatshui started his own conspiracy against Liu Wu's tactics.

Using transport planes to contain and harass is the best thing to deal with such a Zerg who does not yet have a Flying Dragon Tower.

When he saw the red dot on the minimap, Liu Wu knew that he was wrong, and it was almost irreparably wrong.

Liu Wu's two lurkers happened to be buried at the intersection of Jiang Hatshui. And in the base at this moment, Liu Wu has almost nothing except for the three hatching lurks.

So Liu Wuyi commanded his team of half-dogs to rush back. When the dog rushed back, the gunmen who fell from the Jiang Hate Water transport plane were already chasing the fleeing drone in all directions.

And after Liu Wu's team of half-dogs rushed back to his base, Jiang Hatshui also took advantage of the high mobility of the transport plane to linger in Liu Wu's two bases, seize the gap to kill Drone, and harass Liu Wu's normal development. It wasn't until several of Liu Wu's latent hatches were completed and buried in the mining area that Jiang Hatshui's transport plane slowly left.

And when Jiang Hatshui's transport plane had not left, there was only a little more than half a team of gunmen, but they suddenly came out of the intersection of Jiang Hatshui, but the radar flashed, and the gunmen who extracted the stimulants were under the miraculous control of Jiang Hatshui, and at the cost of zero losses, they solved the two lonely lurks without the cover of the dog pack.

Jiang Hatshui's troops rushed out at once.

***

As soon as Liu Wu's dog rushed out of his intersection, he ran into Jiang Hatshui's nearly one and a half teams of spearmen.

So Liu Wu had to retreat. Liu Wu knew that even if there were two teams of dogs, they would never be able to rush out when they encountered such a spearman blocking the narrow exit.

Jiang Hatshui rushed out with only half a team of spearmen, but the troops blocking the exit of the Liuwu base were nearly one and a half teams.

Of course, it is impossible for Jiang Hatshui to send out so many more troops out of thin air, and Jiang Hatshui has so many more troops because the transport plane that came out directly threw its troops not far from the exit of the Liuwu base.

Liu Wu's group of dogs only retreated slightly, and then immediately rushed out again. Rushed out with the dogs, and there were four more lurking.

Liu Wu knew that this was already his only chance, if he let Jiang Hatshui build a solid defense line at the exit of his base, and wait for the Terran technology ball or tank to appear, he would never be able to rush out again.

A team of half-dogs and four lurkers were no weaker than Jiang Hatshui's spearmen in terms of troops. However, Jiang Hatshui once again showed his top strength as a national player.

Two point shots instantly killed the two people who rushed to the front of the pack of dogs. When the dogs were exhausted, the entire battle line only moved a little like a little behind, and the remaining half of the multi-spear soldiers still firmly controlled Liu Wu's intersection.

There are still two of Liu Wu's lurking left, but Jiang Hatshui's troops are also constantly following from the base. What's more, at this time, Jiang Hatshui's first tank and first science and technology ball have also appeared.

Liu Wu sighed slightly in his heart, he knew that his battle, whether in terms of tactics or operation, was far inferior to Jiang Hatshui, so defeat was inevitable.

Liu Wu quickly played the gg, because Liu Wu knew that even if it was a decisive battle on the open terrain, Jiang Hatshui's operation would be far better than his own, not to mention that his intersection had been firmly controlled by Jiang Hatshui, and at such a narrow exit, the Zerg would not be able to play operations such as wrapping and clamping at all. So it's only a matter of time before I fail.

Liu Wu was very convinced, but as soon as he hit the GG, many Zerg supporters began to sigh uncontrollably.

Jiang Hatshui was just the first player of the Terran race, and he had already connected the two cities in an instant. Moreover, the Zerg players who appeared in the two games, in front of Jiang Hatshui, seemed to have no room for even a little resistance.

Such a performance, of course, disappointed the supporters of the Zerg more or less. And many viewers who want to see a wonderful duel also find it very unenjoyable.

In the hearts of many people, a thought rose at the same time.

Jiang Hatshui can't be alone, so he will pierce the Zerg players through his heart with one arrow, and he will be all done.

Such an idea, of course, is not unfounded, because there have been such examples in previous race competitions.

In a game like Interstellar, it's not only about skill and will, but also about confidence. And many people believe that if a person wins in a row, his confidence and form will reach a peak.

And the person who has reached the peak of confidence and form will play stronger than he usually plays.

There was once an interstellar player named Dersert who challenged Team NC, one of the famous teams on Gamei, in one day on Gamei, and won thirteen games in a row in one day. After the fight, it was simply a god to kill a god, a Buddha to kill a Buddha, and no one in the entire NC team was his one-in-one general.

In fact, the strength of that Dersert is not much higher than that of the NC players, and even the strength of some NC players is still above that Dersert. But on that day, he was almost invincible.

Therefore, many people later believed that if a person won consecutive victories, his confidence and state would reach the peak, and at this time, this person's strength could not be measured by his usual strength.

Jiang Hatshui's confidence and state, what kind of state he has reached, no one knows except Jiang Hatshui himself.

But most of the audience couldn't help but have the idea of worrying about the Zerg.

In such an atmosphere, the third player of the Zerg has already taken the stage.

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