Chapter 48: Before the Game
The early morning sunlight shone on his face through the lintel, Xu Mo felt the scorching heat of the sun, and opened his eyes lazily. Today is the morning of the fifth day after Odawara's first fight, and the preliminary round of the KOF Fighting Tournament has also been held three rounds, and the next round is the fourth round of preliminaries, that is, Xu Mo's group will enter the last round of preliminaries before the main event.
Terry returns, taking his brother Andy and his friend Dongzhang back to the villa. Andy is a handsome young man with long hair and a shawl, slightly shorter, and Dongzhang is a bold young man with bandages on all fours, but these two people must be nowhere to be seen every night, and they must have gone out to drink.
In the past four days, realizing that the space guides the reincarnation to the major plot powerhouses, not just to dig out the hidden plot tasks, but more importantly, to learn the combat awareness and experience of the fighting powerhouses, Xu Mo began to fight frantically.
Studying with Terry, with Mary, with Clarke, who occasionally comes here, and even with the bold Dongzhang, even Dinah was forced into the battle circle by him, and he fought with almost every strong man. Only Andy doesn't know what the reason is, and he doesn't like him, but Dinah has a good relationship with Andy.
gave up looking for hidden side plots, and frequently fought with major powerhouses, which brought Xu Mo and Dina huge gains. After a sparring session with Clark, Xu Mo found himself completing a hidden repetitive task - martial arts training.
This task directly added a little strength attribute to him, and under the great joy, Xu Mo strengthened the frequent exchanges with several martial arts powerhouses, which gave Terry and the others a headache. Even Mary, the little lady, is now entering the door lightly, for fear of alarming Xu Mo, and pulling her to play a wrestling game.
Originally, Mary wanted Dinah to persuade Xu Mo not to be so desperate, but Dinah sternly refused. Claiming that this is all for their group to be able to dominate the KOF fighting tournament and fight the invincible opponents in the world, Mary became Dinah's personal sparring partner.
Despite Mary's playful and energetic nature, she couldn't stop Dinah's continuous destruction, causing her to yawn every night and lose even the interest in rolling the sheets with Terry. This also made Terry full of resentment towards Xu Mo, and even took the initiative to seek advice from him, venting all his excess energy on Xu Mo, and beating him mercilessly every time.
In this way, after Xu Mo was flattened by the fighting powerhouses for four days, his physical attributes increased by a full five points, a little strength, a little physical strength, and three agility. The agility has increased a lot, and that is because in the face of the major powerhouses, Xu Mo has almost no chance of winning, so he can only use his steps as much as possible to delay the battle.
As a result, he improved the most in dodge and foot movement, completed a "flickering" cultivation task, and his basic footsteps were also improved from the fifth order to the sixth order. In addition, the prestige of their relationship with several strong people has also increased significantly, and the first few strong people Terry, Mary, and Clark have reached the reputation of respect or above with the two.
The huge gain also made Dina and Xu Mo pay a huge price. In addition to one part of Ribolacic Acid Powder, one part of Orca Oil, and two parts of Fire Water X2 (which can be used in battle, replenish 100 MP), they have also used two special healing creams of Clark of Xu Murde.
In fact, this is also a multiple-choice question given to reincarnators by the superstring space, choose to do hidden plot tasks, then you can get a lot of credits and equipment items, choose to follow the cultivation of the major powerhouses, then you can improve the attributes and combat awareness of the law body in a small amount.
Credits can be used to buy supplies, and equipping items can make the reincarnation stronger, which is basically the option that the average reincarnation chooses. Following a certain strong martial arts player and improving your combat awareness by fighting each other is a risky thing to do after all.
Not only does this require a good relationship with the martial arts leader, but the improved combat experience does not necessarily turn into combat power immediately. Unless he has a good relationship with several martial arts powerhouses like Xu Mo, and his own martial arts accumulation is also very deep, he has experienced the fighting heart of the strong.
"Boss, Max and Serna are here, the two of them want to meet you!" Dinah pushed the door in and shook Xu Mo's shoulder.
Dinah also gained a lot in the four-day competition, although she did not learn the fighting skills of several strong people, but she also learned a few grabs without grade from Mary, and she no longer has no means of attack in hand-to-hand combat. At the same time, her basic attributes and basic abilities have also been greatly improved.
"Max and Serna?" Xu Mo got up from the tatami mat, thought about it, and asked Dinah to lead them in.
“BOSS! Let's ......" After seeing Xu Mo, Max was a little embarrassed, it was the second time that he was in danger of his life because he didn't follow Xu Mo's advice. If it weren't for Serna saving him at all costs, he would have been GAME-OVER.
"BOSS, we want to join your team, it's a real join!" When Serna saw that Max was stumbling, she picked up the conversation and said.
Xu Mo looked at Max and Serna, nodded noncommittally, and was silent for a while before saying, "I don't want to deceive you about anything. I have strict requirements for selecting members, and you don't meet my requirements, and I won't accept you. ”
When Max heard Xu Mo's words, his face was angry, and then as if he thought of something again, he held back his anger and said:
"Boss, both Serna and Cole decided to go on an adventure with me because they trusted me. Now Cole is dead, in the underground plaza of the Fire Temple, if it weren't for Serna, I'd be dead. It's all my fault, as the head of the interim team, you have warned me several times, but I have ignored it. I'm the only one who doesn't meet the requirements for joining the group, I think Serna should meet the requirements, please let her join the group! ”
Xu Mo raised his eyebrows, looked at Max, and said lightly: "I didn't mean to target you alone, what I just said is what I thought, whether it is you or Serna, they don't meet my standards now." Even Dinah was abandoned by me twice before joining the group, but she survived on her own by being treated as an outcast both times, and the world has just become my companion! ”
Hearing Xu Mo's words, Max and Serna looked at Dinah in surprise, and when they saw Dina nodding with a wry smile, they were immediately speechless. This kind of standard for selecting team members is almost more ruthless than space, and it is really difficult for Dina to be alive until now when she became an outcast twice.
"In the Fire Temple, Serna exchanged a temporary team contract for Dinah in order to save you. If you wish, the next world can still be our temporary members, but, as before, you still have to pay for it! Xu Mo smiled faintly.
"We are willing to be temporary members, this world, can we still act with you?" Max and Serna glanced at each other, and there was a glimmer of hope in their eyes, as long as they could follow Xu Mo's side, the guarantee of life would be much greater. Even if the income is a little smaller, it doesn't matter if the accumulation of strength is a little slower, there is hope for living.
After counting the worlds, they have come to understand that even survival is a luxury on their own. Before entering this King of Fighters world, they originally thought that they had gathered the strength of three people and should be able to survive and develop well. But Cole's death hit them mercilessly, making them feel the loneliness and powerlessness they used to feel again.
"You are still my temporary team members, of course you can act with me, but I still have the old saying 'the temporary team will not have any constraints and coercion on everyone, you can act however you want', but ......" Xu Mo said lightly.
"But if we want to work with you on a mission, or if we want you to keep us safe, then we have to listen to you!" Max and Serna received it in unison, and smiled at each other.
A consensus was reached, and Max and Serna's mood was much better, because Xu Mo and Dina hadn't gone out for the past few days and were practicing at home, so they also took this time to collect some information about the KOF fighting competition from the two, focusing on the information of those who were obviously powerful reincarnators in the qualifiers.
Qualifiers for KOF fighting tournaments are held in various cities in Japan, and the venues range from formal indoor rings (such as some martial arts gyms) to football pitches converted into outdoor venues, as well as outdoor grass and park venues.
Tokyo is the most important place for the KOF Fighting Tournament, and it is here that not only the main event of the KOF Fighting Tournament will be held, but also most of the matches of the fourth round of the qualifiers. After all the preliminaries, a total of 128 teams will participate in the main event of the KOF Fighting Tournament.
Terry's already established top fighters will be seeded into the tournament and divided into teams, with the rest of the teams randomly assigned to each other based on the computer. The battle will be a three-person elimination system, and after all three members of a team are defeated by the opponent, they will be eliminated directly, and the winner will advance to the next round.
The remaining eight teams will receive a huge tournament prize, and the championship prize money is in the hundreds of millions of dollars. When Max and Serna were practicing behind closed doors with Xu Mo, Billy and Ryuji Yamazaki, who had already met through the Battle of the Fire Temple, formed a team with a Russian wrestler, Sangilf.
Sangilf was a strong player, using his signature "spiral pile" throwing technique to lead Max and Serna all the way through, and even knocked out a strong team of plot fighters in the third round, which was extremely eye-catching among some of the reincarnation teams that attracted each other's attention.
In the communication with Max, Xu Mo also gradually learned that the reincarnation fighting team that has broken into the fourth round has also been combined with the plot fighters.
While several people were communicating, Xu Mo's door was opened, and Mary walked in in her signature green jacket: "Tang Feng, Donna, our competition notice has come down!" ”